Paleography Course
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Texts, Manuscripts, Editions: Greek Palaeography, the Transmission of Texts, and Textual Criticism
2025/2026 Winter-term (November through January) hybrid, non-credit seminar
The course is an introduction to post-classical Greek book culture (4th – 16th c. CE), the study of Greek literary scripts from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, the transmission history of Greek texts, and the theories and techniques of textual criticism. Students become acquainted with the history of books, the contexts and agents of their production, the history of libraries, manuscript collections, and early printed books, and the transmission of Greek classical literature as well as post-classical, patristic, and Byzantine literature. Unlike the Gennadius Medieval Greek Summer Session which includes some rudimentary introduction to Greek scripts, this seminar provides in-depth training in reading and dating different scripts, as well as in studying textual transmission, and in editing ancient, medieval, and early modern Greek texts.
There is no need to have taken the Gennadius Medieval Greek Summer Session to apply for this course. A minimum of four semesters of Ancient Greek (or equivalent) is required.
DEADLINE: April 15, 2025