Orality and Scribal Culture in the High Middle Ages
Understanding Scholastic Texts as the Product of Teaching and Copying
Timothy B. Noone (Author), Mark J. Clark (Author),
Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 70
Category: History 500-1500, Philosophy
Language: English
ISBN: 9789462705371
Publication date: October 15, 2026
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Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 70
Category: History 500-1500, Philosophy
Language: English
ISBN: 9789461667861
Publication date: October 15, 2026
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Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 70
Category: History 500-1500, Philosophy
Language: English
ISBN: 9789461667854
Publication date: October 15, 2026
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New guidelines for editing, reading, and interpreting Scholastic texts of the High Middle Ages.
This book highlights the interplay between vestigial orality and scribal culture in Scholastic texts of the High Middle Ages. Apart from Thomas Aquinas and a few others who exercised complete control over their texts, the surviving works of most medieval Scholastic masters – copied and recopied many times – retain traces of the oral settings in which they originated. This book presents hundreds of examples from texts spanning the entire High Middle Ages, showing editors and readers of Scholastic texts how to recognize and account for difficulties arising from the vestigial orality embedded in them, and how to recognize and interpret textual anomalies attributable to multi-stage copying following original lectures.
Mark J. Clark and the late Timothy B. Noone have provided editors and readers of medieval texts with an essential resource. Drawing on their editorial experience and making use of many instructive examples, they show how to recognize and handle difficulties in such texts arising from residual traces of orality in manuscripts and the vagaries of manuscript copying. Highly recommended for scholars working in medieval theology and philosophy. - Kevin White, The Catholic University of America
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