Computer-assisted stemmatology in studying Paulus Juusten's 16th-century chronicle Catalogus et ordinaria successio Episcoporum Finlandensium.

Medieval chronicles offer valuable source material for historians studying the Middle Ages. Like all medieval books, also chronicles were written and copied by hand, causing both unintentional errors and intentional alterations to the text. Stemmatologists are trying to recreate the family tree of t...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 578 - 594
Autor principal: Halonen, Marko
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA 9/1/2016
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=117805754&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 117805754
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        2055768X
        JEO9
      jtl: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
      issn: 2055768X
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: 9/1/2016
      vid: 31
      iid: 3
      pid: 622
      pub: Oxford University Press / USA
    artinfo:
      ui:
        117805754
        10.1093/llc/fqv004
      ppf: 578
      ppct: 16
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 562KB
      tig:
        atl: Computer-assisted stemmatology in studying Paulus Juusten's 16th-century chronicle Catalogus et ordinaria successio Episcoporum Finlandensium.
      aug:
        au: Halonen, Marko
        affil: University of Helsinki, Finland
      su:
        Computer assisted instruction
        Medieval historiography
        Middle age
        History of the book
        Historians
      sug:
        subj:
          Computer assisted instruction
          Medieval historiography
          Middle age
          History of the book
          Historians
      ab: Medieval chronicles offer valuable source material for historians studying the Middle Ages. Like all medieval books, also chronicles were written and copied by hand, causing both unintentional errors and intentional alterations to the text. Stemmatologists are trying to recreate the family tree of the different copies. In recent years, many computer-assisted methods have emerged which several editors have already used. Computer-assisted stemmatology can offer valuable tools not only for editors but also for historians. They can also help to test traditional methods of textual criticism, point out errors in earlier historiography and create possibilities for studying cultural links and the history of books. In this article it is demonstrated how the use of different computer-assisted stemmatological methods can reveal new information concerning the manuscript tradition of a Finnish 16th-century chronicle, Paulus Juusten's Catalogus et ordinaria successio Episcoporum Finlandensium. With the help of these methods, it can also be shown that the stemma put forward in the latest edition of the chronicle should be reconsidered. Using PAUP, RHM, and SplitsTree, it is pointed out that these methods create similar results as traditional textual criticism. These results can be obtained considerably more quickly than with traditional methods and without the subjective decision by a stemmatologist between 'original readings and errors'.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: © 2019 EADH: The European Association for Digital Humanities.
      item: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
      holder: Oxford University Press / USA
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2016
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N