Od transkripcije do spektralne analize – nove poti k objavljanju in interpretaciji liričnih besedil srednjega veka in renesanse : (ob obletnici rojstva Milana Kopeckega)
From transcription to spectral analysis: new pathways for editing and interpreting medieval and renaissance lyric texts : (in margine to the anniversary of Milan Kopecký)

slovenian

2025

volume 73, issue 4

editorial practice   forensic analysis   medieval lyric   multispectral imaging   renaissance lyric

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

This study explores the evolving approaches to the editing and interpretation of Medieval and Renaissance lyric texts, with particular attention to the methodology of Czech literary historian Milan Kopecký (1925–2006). The author traces Kopecký’s intellectual influences— his teachers Jan Vilikovský (often referred to as the “Czech E. R. Curtius”), the hymnologist Antonín Škarka, and the Slavist Frank Wollman—and shows how Kopecký’s work gradually shifted from traditional transcription practices toward an understanding of lyric poetry as a culturally and ritually embedded expression. A key example is the so-called Brno fragment of a secular Renaissance lyric, which opens up questions surrounding the interpretation of fragmentarily preserved texts and the potential of contemporary technologies: multispectral imaging, forensic analysis (UV, IR, X-ray), and database-driven research as new tools in modern editorial practice.

19.02.2026