The speaker will be presenting in person.
Abstract:
Philologist have developed a wide range of methods and conventions to critically represent literary works with a variant manuscript transmission history. These academic standards of so-called critical editions have been transferred, transformed, extended and sometimes abandoned or overcome in digital textual scholarship. This lecture will provide an overview about the achievements of both traditional and digital philology and discuss newly established editorial practices. Challenges of especially complex traditions and potential solutions will be exemplified by two current editorial projects: the digital edition of Peter of Poitier’s Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and the digital edition of Goethe’s Venetian Epigrams. As a conclusion, some future prospects of scholarly editing in the post-digital age will be addressed.
Short bio:
Franz Fischer is associate professor for Medieval and Humanist Latin Literature and director of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is (co-)editor of Medieval Latin works by Patrick of Ireland, Peter of Poitiers and William of Auxerre as well as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s Venetian Epigrams. He is (co-)editor-in-chief of magazén - International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, Disclosing Collections and Digital Medievalist (until 2025). A founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE), he is co-publisher of SIDE, a series on digital editions, palaeography and codicology, and of RIDE, a review journal on digital editions and resources.
Personal website: www.unive.it/people/franz.fischer.