Lachmanns Erbe. Editionsmethoden in klassischer Philologie und germanistischer Mediävistik, ed. Anna Kathrin Bleuler and Oliver Primavesi. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 19. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2022, 614 pp.

Abstract

Abstract Old and New Philology, or textual and material philology, reproduce a perhaps already outdated binary in 2022, as researchers have developed and quickly adapted to hybrid approaches since Stephen G. Nichol’s introduction to the special volume of Speculum in 1990 (Stephen G. Nichols, “Introduction: Philology in a Manuscript Culture,” Speculum 65.1 (1990): 1–10). That clarion call for a return to manuscript philology and codicological consideration of physical textual histories raises no objections today, demonstrating the degree to which a once somewhat critical apprehension of the then-developing approach has been subsumed under the general rubric of Medieval Studies in general and philology in particular (see, for example, Susan Yager, “New Philology,” Handbook of Medieval Studies. Terms – Methods – Trends, ed. Albrecht Classen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011, 999–1006). Lachmanns Erbe brings the state of the field forward, primarily from German, French, and Italian perspectives as a bridge between Lachmann and the present.