Hi all--
>Granted, modern critical editions are often better than what you find in
>Migne, but for many important authors Migne remains the only game in town,
>unless you want to go back ad fontes yourself and do your own critical
>edition. It has been done before and is always a beneficial exercise for
>the critic and theologian. So I wouldn't rule out Migne unless you have a
>modern critical edition at hand, and even then I'd check each against the
>other. Migne (or maybe the editions he [ahem] borrowed) will occasionally
>give you a pleasant surprise.
>
>And now that Migne is on cd-rom using it is a snap.
Precisely. I'm constantly amazed at what works are out there that a modern
critical edition hasn't been done for. Peter Comestor, for one.....While
working on my thesis, I used the online PL to search for passages cited in
the work I was editing, and then double-checked them in modern editions,
just to be sure. And it can be *very* handy if you've got an unattributed
citation, or one with no more information beyond "Augustinus ait...."
Susan Carroll-Clark
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