Böcker i Conference on Editorial Problems-serien

This collection of essays, in the series on Editorial Problems, offers historical and contextual discussions of several of Grosseteste's works.

Essays examine the problems inherent in attempting to record oral cultures for a visual society. What happens when the oral stories, beliefs, or histories of North American Native peoples are transferred to paper or other media?

The essays in Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy consider how distinct habits of writing took root among specific communities in Italy between the early Middle Ages and the eve of the Renaissance.

The papers throw light on the nature and history of the evolution of the atlas as a book, and also on the atlas as a 'text' of contemporary times.

The essays in this collection focus on two areas of inquiry: original editing problems associated with various atlases, from the earliest to the most recent; and the analysis of a variety of different atlases, to give a diverse picture of an important reference work as it has evolved through the ages.

Originally presented at the Thirtieth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto in November 1994 the six essays in this collection reflect on three successfully completed editing projects

The five essays in this collection deal with the problems inherent in editing and translating writings on such diverse subjects as music theory, harmonic science, composition, sociology, liturgy, and performance practice.