Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures : Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?

Abstract

How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in the processes of transmission, or the migration of texts into different contexts can influence or be influenced by the development of variants – this book addresses these questions in a historical and comparative perspective.