Editing Medieval Sources of Diplomatic Character
or how to create a source edition of high quality
The course is taught by: Mgr. Balázs Csiba, PhD.
Form of instruction: lecture and seminar (P:1 / S:1)
ECTS: 3
Objective:
To have theoretical knowledge and practical abilities to edit historical diplomatic sources.
Brief outline:
- Types of source publications
- Rules of transcription
- Rules of edition
- Formal requirements of source publications
- Methodics of editing of source publications
- Online databases of mediaeval charters and their usage
Graduation requirements:
- Regular attendance and active engaging in seminars, elaboration of assigned homework and seminar work, in which the student will edit a historical diplomatic source chosen after consultation with the teacher. Based on the aforementioned seminar work, which must be prepared and submitted during the semester, will the students receive classification.
- Number of acceptable absences: 2.
Recommended reading:
- LEHOTSKÁ, Darina. Transkripčné pravidlá, odborná terminológia a ukážka latinských textov. Bratislava, 1982.
- SEDLÁK, František. Edície prameňov. In: Ochrana, sprístupňovanie a využívanie archívnych dokumentov, zost. Vladimír Horváth a kol., Bratislava : Archívna správa MV SSR, 1988, s. 102-112.
- TRINGLI István. Középkori oklevelek kiadásának problémái. In FONS, roč. VII, č. 1 (A történeti források kiadásának módszertani kérdései), 2000, s. 7-40.
