Analyzing the order of items in manuscripts of the canterbury tales

Matthew Spencer; Barbara Bordalejo; L. I.San Wang; Adrian C. Barbrook; Linne R. Mooney; Peter Robinson; Tandy Warnow; Christopher J. Howe

doi:10.1023/A:1021818600001

Analyzing the order of items in manuscripts of the canterbury tales

Matthew Spencer, Barbara Bordalejo, L. I.San Wang, Adrian C. Barbrook, Linne R. Mooney, Peter Robinson, Tandy Warnow, Christopher J. Howe

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales consists of loosely-connected stories, appearing in many different orders in extant manuscripts. Differences in order result from rearrangements by scribes during copying, and may reveal relationships among manuscripts. Identifying these relationships is analogous to determining evolutionary relationships among organisms from the order of genes on a genome. We use gene order analysis to construct a stemma for the Canterbury Tales. This stemma shows relationships predicted by earlier scholars, reveals new relationships, and shares features with a word variation stemma. Our results support the idea that there was no established order when the first manuscripts were written.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	97-109
Number of pages	13
Journal	Computers and the Humanities
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021818600001
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Canterbury tales
Chaucer
Gene order
Phylogenetic analysis
Stemmatology

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