The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it
increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic …

Every scholarly edition may be placed by reference to two axes, representing (as it were) the
longitude and latitude of editing. The first axis is along the familiar continuum of …

This article presents a commented history of automatic collation, from the 1940s until the end
of the twentieth century. We look at how the collation was progressively mechanized and …

The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate from a theoretical and methodological
perspective the different tools that allow automated collation, and study the application of …

As almost all texts of interest to scholarly editors exist in multiple versions, efficient systems
of collation are crucial. The first part of the paper explains desiderata for computer-based …

Although textual scholars agree that collation is a crucial component of the editing process, it
often goes undefined and only briefly explained. This article defines the term, explains …

We perform textual collation for investigating the varia lectio, ie the variants. In the case of
medieval texts, the results often are used for understanding the relationship among the …

The Canterbury Tales Project (CTP) constitutes a long-term and substantial research
program in that unusually fashionable segment of literary scholarship called the digital …

This essay considers the ways in which incompleteness–the de facto status of virtually all of
Middle English literature–is both a type of failure and a special characteristic of this …

Books do not just contain texts: books themselves are cultural artefacts, which convey many
meanings in their own right, meanings which interact with the texts they contain. Awareness …