Un Acercamiento Cultural A La Edición De Textos Medievales: Método Y Mentalidad Nacional En Alemania, Francia Y España

Abstract

The field of editorial philology is commonly divided according to the methodology utilized by specific editorial schools, such as the antithetical and the well known methodologies of Bédierism and Lachmannism. Yet despite the importance of these methodological differences, these editorial schools also appear to conglomerate along national lines. Thus Bédierism and Lachmannism are commonly and respectively considered as French and German schools of textual scholarship. Following these national lines, and working closely with two essays by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, this article explores the relationship between editorial methodologies and national mentalities in the area of the medieval editorial philologies of Spain, Germany and France.