Manuel de la philologie de l'edition (French, Hardcover)

Textual editing, particularly thatof medieval texts, is the starting point for a good deal of the research carried out in historical linguistics. Editorial methods (and the precision which they claim to offer) have an importance going far beyond theoretical considerations, and are of interest to scholars over and above those who edit texts. The volume presents the range of methods used (while also taking into account the history of the discipline)as well asa number of case studies