Decoding the Past: Critical Editions Conference

A conference on critical editions to take place in the TCD Long Room Hub 1-2 November 2019. Medieval and Early Modern French, Gaelic, Irish, History, and Law.

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The conference will take place at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 1-2 November 2019. Check out our website for more details: https://t.co/siEMrZs8mL
sponsored by @DubCityCouncil @TCDTrust @TCMRS_Seminar @Medium_Aevum @SRSRenSoc

[Pietro Mocchi @PietroMocchi]

@decodingthepast @Medium_Aevum @CecileDcx @NinaCnock Very grateful to @Medium_Aevum and to the organisers for the opportunity to follow such rich and stimulating conference!

[Dr Alexandra Corey @alexandramcorey]

Thank you again to @DubCityCouncil @TCDTrust @SRSRenSoc @Medium_Aevum @TLRHub for their sponsorship of our conference on critical editions. It was a great success and we could not have done it without your support.

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Giving a special thanks in our closing remarks to our sponsors @DubCityCouncil @TCDTrust @SRSRenSoc @Medium_Aevum @TLRHub - we could not have done it without your support.

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Many thanks to @Medium_Aevum for three student bursaries awarded to @CecileDcx @PietroMocchi @NinaCnock - congratulations to the awardees, you each made a wonderful contribution to the conference!

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Dr James Hanrahan and Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey answering questions after our session on Early Modern French Editions

[Decoding the Past: Critical Editions Conference @decodingthepast]

@pablodiablo74 chairing our fifth session after two fantastic papers by @JoannaPo14 and @ChantalKobel

[Decoding the Past: Critical Editions Conference @decodingthepast]

@CClearych presenting “A Hybrid Product: Methodological Problems Editing Middle Irish Prose”

[Decoding the Past: Critical Editions Conference @decodingthepast]

@JoannaPo14 presenting methods for editing Waldensian treatises

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Dr Jean-Paul Pittion and Dr Magdalena Kozluk presenting “Cryptic Sources: Identifying and Decoding Sources in Early Modern Humanist Printed Treatises”

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

A strong strand of @decodingthepast is the future of traditional skills. Dr Bernadette Williams is the latest to speak to the problems of linguistic learning.

[Paul Dryburgh @pablodiablo74]

Lovely surprise waiting for me as I get back from @decodingthepast. New collection of essays - free to download here - https://t.co/zehGIjzwwL - on one of the UK's greatest 20th century's medieval historians

[Chantal Kobel @ChantalKobel]

@CClearych giving an excellent paper @decodingthepast highlighting the need for modern scholars to pay careful attention to the periodised date of a text given in critical editions produced in the earlier 20th century, prior to the now accepted periodisation of the language.

[Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @NinaCnock]

I had a great time @decodingthepast; such an interesting & wide-ranging conference! It was a really encouraging step to sharing methodologies and approaches between fields! And did not deter me in wanting to continue editing work at all! Bring on the manuscript witnesses 😏😂

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

Scepticism towards previous editions and consideration of the evolution of editing (and the force of ideologies) is one of the key takeaways from @decodingthepast. Can we escape from the imprint of the time in which were functioning?

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

Christina Cleary laments the state of the teaching and training in Middle Irish outside @tcddublin which has led to fewer texts being edited and changes in the language remaining undocumented. @decodingthepast

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

The final session @decodingthepast. Here we have Christina Cleary on the methodological problems of editing Middle Irish prose and the incomparable @StephenHewer on the mistranslation of names by 21st century historians

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

Poems on the optative subjunctive anyone??? Anyone??? @decodingthepast

[Paul Dryburgh @pablodiablo74]

We're back @decodingthepast with Micheal Hoyne introducing Irish Grammatical Texts and the challenges of editing

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

Next we have Joanna Poetz (TCD) on editing fragments - the critical edition of Waldensian treatises @decodingthepast

[Ars Inquirendi - 2026 Conference @DarkArchives]

Another brilliant justification for the teaching and learning of "traditional" linguistic, philological and palaeographic skills. Oh, and the need for passion!!! @decodingthepast