Dante's Monarchia as a test case for the use of phylogenetic methods in stemmatic analysis.

Dante's Monarchia, a fourteenth century treatise on political theory which survives in 20 manuscripts and the editio princeps, has been studied extensively by scholars using traditional analytical methods to establish textual transmission. It was selected as a suitable tradition for a blind study to...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 443 - 464
Main Authors:	Windram, Heather F., Shaw, Prue, Robinson, Peter, Howe, Christopher J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Dec2008
Subjects:	Monarchianism Political theology Manuscripts Scholars Transmission of texts Copying Phylogeny DNA Nucleotide sequence
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost