Parallax: Looking at the Medieval through the Modern Lens

• Authors: Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

Title variants

PL

Błąd paralaksy, czyli rozbieżność średniowiecznej i współczesnej perspektywy

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The objective of the paper was to articulate the gap between the medieval manuscript and its modern editions. It emphasises the need to study medieval texts in their natural context, i.e. against the manuscript codex as only then do they speak in full voice. While the usefulness of electronic editions is indisputable, a linguist working with a modern edition of a medieval text must be aware of how far it departs from the text it intends to represent. Therefore, wherever possible, it is advisable to examine manuscript scans which are now widely accessible on internet sites of the libraries housing manuscript resources. It is of paramount importance not only as a way of verifying corpus examinations but also because manuscript examinations complement the findings based on electronic data by offering invaluable clues encoded in the materiality of the manuscript. This postulate is relevant both for historical linguistic analyses and translation studies, and is equally valid for literary studies.

PL

Celem pracy było ukazanie głębokiego rozdźwięku pomiędzy średniowiecznym manuskryptem i jego współczesnym wydaniem. Podkreśla się potrzebę studiowania tekstów średniowiecznych w ich naturalnym kontekście, czyli w postaci kodeksu rękopiśmiennego, jako że jedynie wówczas tekst średniowieczny mówi do nas pełnym głosem. Mimo bezspornej przydatności korpusów elektronicznych, badacz pracujący ze współczesnym wydaniem średniowiecznego tekstu musi mieć świadomość, jak daleko odbiega on od tekstu, który w zamierzeniu reprezentuje. Dlatego też, niezwykle ważne jest, aby w miarę możliwości sięgać do rękopisów powszechnie dostępnych na stronach internetowych bibliotek. Bezcenne wskazówki zakodowane w rękopisie jako przedmiocie materialnym, pomogą nie tylko dokonać weryfikacji wniosków wyciągniętych na podstawie analiz tekstu elektronicznego, ale także te wyniki w sposób istotny uzupełnić. Postulat ten jest równie istotny dla historycznych analiz językoznawczych i studiów tłumaczeniowych, jak dla badań literackich.

Keywords

EN

manuscript; codicology; electronic corpora; medieval text

PL

manuskrypt; kodykologia; korpusy elektroniczne; tekst średniowieczny

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 5: Neofilologia
• Pages: 47-61

Contributors

author

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik

• Department of the History of English and Translation Studies, Institute of English Studies, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rh.2016.64.5-3