From Manuscripts to Book: Editing Texts in Celtic Languages

Harvard FAS

‘From Manuscripts to Book’ will begin with a broad survey of the history, theory and methodologies of textual criticism and in its origins in the editing of classical and biblical texts before moving on to consider their application to medieval texts. There are probably more texts preserved in medieval and early modern manuscripts written in Celtic languages and Latin from the Celtic-speaking world that have never been edited than for any other literary culture in the western world. In…