Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The Book of the Tales of Canterbury: A Critical Edition
Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo announced the publication of their digital critical edition of some of Chaucer's (apparently wrongly named) Canterbury Tales. While the relevance for OTTC might not be obvious, a quick look at their edition might help give a little bit of vision of what an excellent digital edition of the Hebrew Bible text could look like in the 21st century. Robinson and Bordalejo have been at the forefront of developing tools and standards in the field, and they have been working on Canterbury Tales for many years. Their tools are in many ways similar to and in fact developed in relation to the Virtual Manuscript Room with which we are working to produce the Digital Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter. Congratulations to the editors for this great accomplishment, and I hope that scholars in our field will also catch the vision of what could be.
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Thanks for the notice! As you rightly point out, our edition owes a huge debt to the long period we spent working closely with Greek New Testament editors, notably David Parker, Klaus Wachtel and Hugh Houghton. A special shout-out to Klaus, whose explanation of the purpose of the printed text in the Nestle-Aland editions became the foundation of our edition (https://talesofcanterbury.org/GP/html/editorial/menu/About.html).
ReplyDeleteHappy to highlight such a great project and edition! Your collaboration with the GNT editors has been impactful on my own personal vision of what a digital edition can and should be, and I really appreciate your advice in the early stages of our Psalms edition.
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