Ars Edendi: Lecture Series. Volume IV

The fourth volume of the by now established Ars Edendi Lectures Series is also the last to be published within the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond programme by the same name that ran at the University of Stockholm 2008-2015. As in the other volumes, the reader will find here gathered the lectures, printed in the same order in which they were chronologically delivered, which animated the main themes of that programme, but also echoed more closely the concerns of this or that researcher who contributed to the event. Fittingly, this volume is edited by Barbara Crostini, Gunilla Iversen, and Brian M. Jensen, who were responsible for organizing most of the events that see the light of publication in this volume. The contributions to this volume are well balanced between Latin and Greek, the two languages at the centre of the programme, and reflect the range of approaches to editing and types of editions that well exemplify the activity of the group throughout these years. Both a reflection on the fundamentals (e.g. What is a critical edition?) and a closer look at the specifics (e.g. marginalia, errors, musical notation) of editing are explored by the topics addressed by our expert lecturers, whose participation in the Ars edendi programme we gratefully acknowledge here. Their contributions have broadened and enlivened our work on our own editions, and given us food for thought in the knowledge that we were confronted with state-of-the-art approaches in our respective fields. The oral tone of the presentations has not been entirely edited out from this book.