Synopses & Reviews
This CD-ROM continues the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman. The edition of the B-version manuscript known as R' is especially important because of its status as the only reliable witness for one of the two surviving branches of the B tradition. As is usual for the series, the edited text of the manuscript is presented in four different views -- a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen -- along with colour facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses. Robert Adams is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, Texas.
Synopsis
Volume 7 is the latest in the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman. These CD-ROMs present the edited texts of manuscripts in four different views -- a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen -- along with color facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses.
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The editors ... call this a documentary edition.' This is too humble. For Piers Plowman studies, documentation and editing are being transformed, and Langland's work is bound to regain more of its authentic volatile life. Stephen Shepherd, YLS 14 (2000): 207.
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These CD-ROM editions provide scholars with the data and the tools to transform the study of Langland's text and language.' Simon Horobin, YLS 19 (2005): 225