August 5, 2024
When working on a text, several reflexes still dominate the analysis. The first reflex is to focus on the original manuscript and its context of production and to privilege the author's intentions. The second one is to study the text as a “thing in itself” and to limit the analysis to this clearly delimited and isolated object, privileging the content to the detriment of the form and neglecting the conditions of production and the diffusion of medieval texts. Another tendency is to focus on the evolution of a text in its various manuscripts (and identify the variations that occurred) without considering the environment of these different testimonies.
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