LMD_001 Textual Criticism I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Hana Bočková, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vlastimil Brom, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Pavel Kosek, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 11. 10. 10:00–11:40 G25, 12:00–13:40 G25, Fri 15. 11. 10:00–11:40 G25, 12:00–13:40 G25, Fri 6. 12. 10:00–11:40 G25, 12:00–13:40 G25
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce practical principles of textual criticism with special regards to medieval manuscript material of Bohemian origin. It will familiarise students with the most important methodological approaches of traditional and modern textual criticism with regards to medieval Latin, Czech and German material.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- describe the most important approaches of textual criticism to medieval manuscript material
- understand the differences and specifics of medieval primary sources written in various languages with regards to their critical editions
- explain differences in editing various types of historical texts
- apply the most appropriate method of modern textual criticism to historical unedited sources
Syllabus
  • Traditional textual criticism versus textology (Lachmann, Maas, Bédier, Lichačev); New Philology; Digital Turn
  • Medieval manuscript material and its specific features: the concept of authorial intention, mouvance, variance, contamination of manuscripts, specific features of Latin manuscripts
  • Specific features and traditions of editing old Czech texts: a) Old Czech and Early Modern Czech texts; b) printed and manuscript texts
  • Various traditions of book culture in the manuscript and print culture. Relationship between the development of typography and ortography. Editing texts with long text tradition.
  • Specific philological traditions in editing medieval German texts; the problem of linguistic standardisation - concept of the so-called classical Middle High German
Literature
    required literature
  • MAAS, Paul. Textkritik. Einleitung in die altertumswissenschaft. 1960. info
  • TROVATO, Paolo. Everything you always wanted to know about Lachmann's method : a non-standard handbook of genealogical textual criticism in the age of Post-Structuralism, cladistics, and copy-text. Edited by Michael D. Reeve. Prima edizione. Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2014, 355 stran. ISBN 9788862925280. info
    recommended literature
  • ČEŠKA, Josef. Textová kritika ve filologické praxi. Vyd. 1. Brno: UJEP Brno, 1973, 70 s. info
  • Nichols, Stephen G. „Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture.” Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 65/1 (1990): 1–10
    not specified
  • Havel, Rudolf et al. Editor a text: úvod do praktické textologie. 2. vyd. Praha - Litomyšl: Paseka, 2006.
  • Daňhelka, Jiří. Směrnice pro vydávání starších českých textů. Husitský Tábor, 8, 1985, s. 285–301.
  • Králík, Stanislav (ed.). 1981. Otázky současné komeniologie. Praha: Academia.
  • Valášek, Martin. Jindy a nyní. (K historii vydávání raně novověkých česky psaných textů). Listy filologické, 123, 2000, s. 149–156.
  • Vašák, Pavel. Textologie. Teorie a ediční praxe. Praha: UK, 1993.
  • Vintr, Josef. Zásady transkripce českých textů z barokní doby. Listy filologické, 121, 1998, s. 341–346.
Teaching methods
Seminars and seminar discussions; conscientious reading of assigned secondary literature; presentation of a research question based on a textual source of one's own choice
Assessment methods
Colloquy. Deadline for the written assignement: 31. 1. 2020, followed by an oral discussion (date to be assigned individually).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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