Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices

Download or read book Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices written by Anthony Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of richly documented case studies, experts in many textual traditions examine the ways in which important texts were preserved, explicated, corrected, and used for a variety of purposes. The authors describe the multiple ways in which scholars in different cultures have addressed some of the same tasks, revealing both radical differences and striking similarities in textual practices across space, time and linguistic borders. This volume shows how much is learned when historians of scholarship, like contemporary historians of science, focus on earlier scholars' practices, and when Western scholarly traditions are treated as part of a much larger, cross-cultural inquiry.