Seminar: AM 2: Editing the Medieval Text - Details

Seminar: AM 2: Editing the Medieval Text - Details

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Course name Seminar: AM 2: Editing the Medieval Text
Subtitle
Course number 450351
Semester WiSe 2024/25
Current number of participants 11
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Abteilung für Englische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 22.10.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Room: (VG 3.104 (Verfügungsgebäude - PIZ 5361))
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Prüfungsleistung(en) je Modul / Exam details per module:

* [(B.DH.011.Mp) Basistechnologien der Digitalisierung von Sprache und Text][1]
* Referat mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung: Di, 04.02.2025
* [(B.DH.34.PrVor) Sprachliche Heterogenität in der digitalen Analyse (Übungsaufgaben)][2]
* Prüfungsvorleistung: Di, 04.02.2025
* [(B.Eng.602.2) Topics of Medieval English Studies][3]
* Klausur: Di, 11.02.2025, von 10:00:00 bis 11:30:00 ([VG 3.105 (Verfügungsgebäude - PIZ 5361)][4])
* [(B.Eng.631.Mp) Hausarbeit][5]
* Abgabe Hausarbeit: Mo, 31.03.2025
* [(M.DH.10.PrVor) Theorien und Forschungsfragen der Digitalen Sprachanalyse - Übungsaufgaben][6]
* Prüfungsvorleistung: Di, 04.02.2025
* [(SK.DH.04.Mp) Digitale Editionen und Annotationen][7]
* Referat mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung: Di, 04.02.2025

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[3]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28393&periodId=277
[4]: https://www.geodata.uni-goettingen.de/lageplan/?ident=5361_1_3.OG_3.105
[5]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28414&periodId=277
[6]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28909&periodId=277
[7]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=25126&periodId=277

Rooms and times

(VG 3.104 (Verfügungsgebäude - PIZ 5361))
Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (14x)

Fields of study

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Philologists have always been editors. Seen through their lens, a text is a construct arrived at after consulting all relevant manuscript witnesses and systematically identifying the best readings while documenting variants. Editors thus require a knowledge not only of palaeography (the study of ancient script) and codicology (the study of books as material objects), but also of the arcane discipline of stemmatology, which infers the relationships between surviving copies of a text. As XML is now the encoding format of choice for humanities text corpora, editors find themselves confronted with a number of new domains. The first order of business is the study of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) standard of XML encoding. Every editing project begins with the questions what information to encode, which TEI elements to use, and how to structure one’s documents, whether as individual transcriptions or complete critical editions. Ideally, decisions on these matters of document structure and encoding standards are made with further processing in mind: are the documents merely to be styled in CSS and displayed in the browser? Should they be transformed by XSLT into standalone HTML, plaintext, PDF, or word processing documents? Is the end product a critical print edition? Does the research project involve corpus analysis e.g. through a Python XML library, or on the basis of plaintext transformations? In this course, which requires no prior knowledge of medieval languages, XML, or editorial principles (but check your chosen module for any prerequisites), students will learn the basics of early medieval codicology and palaeography before embarking on a hands-on workshop on TEI editing. They will familiarize themselves with the foundational principles of textual criticism; they will learn how to parse text-critical introductions and the critical apparatus; but above all, they will work on both single-witness transcriptions and basic critical editions, and learn at least where to start when seeking to prepare XML files for on-screen or print presentation. Students with prior experience in medieval English will be able to draw on their knowledge of the language to transcribe medieval English manuscripts, but they will acquire new skills on all fronts: manuscript transcription, textual criticism, XML, and CSS. Students with no prior knowledge of medieval English, with or without experience in the technologies used, will likewise become acquainted with the principles of textual criticism, and they will learn to transcribe medieval manuscripts in an agreed-upon language, as well as gain experience with TEI’s textcrit module.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Mediävistik - AM 2-Kurse + Hauptseminare".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.09.2024, 08:00 to 01.11.2024, 23:59.