Publication Reviews/Aug 26, 2019

The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook

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As a "case book" of innovative editorial practices, this volume is not intended to be read from cover to cover. In light of this, the editors have done a magnificent job of indexing the individual articles to facilitate their use by scholars who dip into the collection to find solutions to their own editing issues. Each contribution begins with a series of helpful summaries under the following categories: type of text and textual material considered in the article; the date of the sources, both their origin and the manuscripts that provide evidence of their later use; specific witnesses used in the case study; the methodological problem considered in the contribution; the solution imposed by the author; and cross-referencing to other articles in the book dealing with similar problems.

Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, Barbara Crostini, et. al., eds. The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook. Studies and Texts 203. Toronto: PIMS, 2016.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Scott G. Bruce, Fordham University