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Reconstructing and Performing Texts Digitally
By Samuel Rowe Traduttore, traditore, goes the Italian saying. [1] Modern scholarship often seeks accuracy, the original of something: historical ‘truth’. Performing a text in an ancient language to bring us closer to the past falls within this desire – but the realities of reconstucting historical texts are often more complicated. The idea of reconstructing…
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The Welsh Dadolwch and Princely Favour
By Kit Treadwell (ct578@cam.ac.uk) Dating from the middle of the twelfth century to the middle of the thirteenth, seven Welsh poems bear the title element dadolwch (appeasement, reconciliation).[1] These seven poems — unique enough to bear their own genre term — may well belie a larger but inextant tradition. Regardless, working with what we have reveals the pitfalls…
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