Leal Conselheiro Electronic Edition

• Main Author: Ulrike Henny
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e. V. 2014-06-01
• Series: RIDE
• Subjects: code of conduct; court; critical edition; edition series; facsimile; genesis of work; interactive edition; library; literature; medieval; moral; philosophy; portuguese; religion; single manuscript; tei; treatise; work critical edition
• Online Access: http://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-1/leal-conselheiro/

The paper reviews the Leal Conselheiro Electronic Edition, the first digital edition of the medieval text Leal Conselheiro, a moral treatise authored by king Edward I of Portugal. The goal of the research project behind the edition, a co-operation between the University of Lisbon and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is to offer a scholarly, critical, and practically useful text in digital form. The review argues that the resulting digital edition is built upon solid methodological grounds, i.a. by integrating previous editorial work and resorting to the TEI standard for encoding, but that it misses to make its achievements accessible and usable in the desired way, first of all by holding back the underlying basic data and because of a presentation that is sometimes confusing and does not tap the full potential of a digital edition.