Klappentext

Scholarly editions contextualize our cultural heritage. Traditionally,
methodologies from the field of scholarly editing are applied to works of
literature, e. g. in order to trace their genesis or present their varied history of
transmission. What do we make of the variance in other types of cultural heritage?
How can we describe, record, and reproduce it systematically? From medieval to
modern times, from image to audiovisual media, the book traces discourses across
different disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model for scholarly editions
on a broader scale. By doing so, it also delves into the theory and philosophy of
the (digital) humanities as such.