Song, Text, and Cassette: Why We Need Authoritative Audio Editions of Medieval Literary Works

Abstract

"My purpose here is to advocate the use of these new facilities towards the better understanding of the past. Specifically, as a community of scholars, we ought to undertake systematic sponsorship and production of audio-cassette editions of medieval literature. This publication--and we should conceive of it in this honorific sense--should merely spearhead a comprehensive revamping of scholarly practice towards the recuperation of medieval discourse as sound."--Taken from second paragraph.