Preface by the Editor

The new millennium has brought ever more radical change.
Unfortunately, however, its globalisation and cutting edge technology  seem to have conspired to render philology all but superfluous. Consequently, support for its extracurricular efforts has nearly vanished. Faced with such erosion, there persists but a tiny residue of enthusiasts.

Confronted with diminishing means, this coterie tends increasingly to turn to the possibilities provided by “the net”. Nevertheless, quite apart from denying us the pleasures of a print product, what the internet seemingly cannot manage to mediate  is a direct or even synoptic presentation of literature on specific topics.

Some classics from the past have sometimes had such a strong impact on the field  that I decided to reprint a selection here, particularly those that are frequently referenced (as in the present volume), but which are now difficult - if not outright impossible - to access. Knittel’s paper, for instance, was one of the pioneering critical studies on the Codex Argenteus – yet is today so concealed and, hence, forgotten  that none of the leading bibliographies even lists it.

The motivation for choosing this kind of publication was therefore twofold:
- to reduce reproduction costs to a minimum,
- yet preserve a somewhat bibliophile character by facsimile.
Therefore, original page numbers have often been retained, and handwritten additions have been left untouched in most cases.

Finally, it should be kept in mind  that pricing has its basis  not only in covering the costs of paper and production, but also - perhaps primarily - in covering hidden costs such as interlibrary-loan fees, copyright arrangements, software license fees, trade -taxes, distribution expenses, trade discounts required by booksellers, VAT, postage, and so on, and so forth;
costs rarely considered by a scholarly readership.

Dixi et salvavi animam meam
Christian T. Petersen

Lars MUNKHAMMAR:  The Mystery of the Thousand Years – The hidden history of Codex argenteus
James W. MARCHAND:  The use of the personal computer in the humanities
[Paul Glaue &] Karl HELM:  Das gotisch-lateinische Bibelfragment der Groszherzoglichen Universitaetsbibliothek Gieszen
Peter A. KUHLMANN:  Gotisch-lateinisches Bibelfragment
Hans F. MAßMANN:  Skeireins – Prolegomena, Faksimile, Transkription, Uebersetzung
Knut SCHÄFERDIEK:  Theologiegeschichtliche Bemerkungen zur Skeireins
Ernst A. EBBINGHAUS:  Gothic Lexicography
Magnús SNÆDAL:  Naples – Arezzo – Verona
Thomas L. MARKEY:  A Child of  Necessity: Gothic ê-Genitives
Christian T. PETERSEN:  Modellvorschlag zur Einordnung des Westgotischen in das System der indogermanischen Sprachen
Franz A. KNITTEL:  Einige kritische Bemerkungen ueber Ulphilas gothische Uebersetzung der Evangelien

Volume II (2003)
ISBN 978-3-935869-02-7
Scripta nova & vetera

Bernhard BISCHOFF: Ein karolingisches Denkmal des Gotischen (Zweite Haelfte des neunten Jahrhunderts)
Michael van den HOUT: Gothic Palimpsests of Bobbio
Karl HELM: Einiges ueber die Skeireins
Ernst A. EBBINGHAUS: Einige Bemerkungen zur Skeireins
George W. S. FRIEDRICHSEN: The Gothic 'Skeireins' in the Greek original
Else EBEL: Zur Folge SOV in der Skeireins
Wolfgang GRIEPENTROG: Zur Text- und Ueberlieferungsgeschichte der Skeireins
Alessandro ZIRONI:  I palinsesti in lingua gotica fra i regni ostrogoto e longobardo
Theo VENNEMANN: Phonologically conditioned morphological change - exceptions to Sievers’ Law in Gothic
Marc PIERCE:  Was Gothic Syllabification Phonologically or Morphologically Conditioned?
Christian T. PETERSEN: Eine Art Fragenkatalog fuer indogermanische Korpussprachen – exemplifiziert durch das Corpus Goticum
Max H. JELLINEK: Das gotisch-lateinische Bibelfragment der Universitaetsbibliothek zu Giessen von Paul Glaue und Karl Helm
Magnús SNÆDAL: The Gothic Text of Codex Gissensis

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