Editorial Principles

In consultation with our distinguished board of editorial advisers, we have established principles that will guide the progress of the series. The primary purpose of the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations is to render medieval Latin texts accessible in authoritative modern English translations; at the same time the series will strive to provide reliable texts in Latin where such are not yet available. The translations will therefore be established either on the basis of existing good critical editions (which we will not normally reprint) or, when necessary, on the basis of new editions. To enhance the accessibility of the texts to a wide academic public, including graduate students, the critical apparatus of the editions will be limited to important variants. Each volume will comprise scholarly introductions, notes, and annotated bibliographies.

Works published in the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations series will be unexcerpted and unabridged. In the case of a work too long to appear in a single volume, we will start with the beginning of the work or publish integral parts, rather than creating a selection of discontinuous texts.

Editor: Philipp W. Rosemann, University of Dallas

Dr. Rosemann is assisted by an editorial board composed of medievalists at the University of Dallas and at Southern Methodist University. The members of the editorial board are:

Jeremy du Quesnay Adams (Southern Methodist University);
David L. Balas, O.Cist. (University of Dallas);
Denis M. Farkasfalvy, O.Cist. (University of Dallas);
Theresa Kenney (University of Dallas);
James J. Lehrberger, O.Cist. (University of Dallas);
Stephen Maddux (University of Dallas);
John R. Sommerfeldt (University of Dallas);
Francis R. Swietek (University of Dallas); and
Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist University).

The editorial board takes its decisions on the development of the series and on individual projects in light of advice received from members of an international board of editorial advisers, which includes medievalists representing the major fields of medieval studies. The following scholars have so far joined the board of editorial advisers:

Charles S.F. Burnett (Warburg Institute, London);
Marcia L. Colish (Yale University);
Thérèse-Anne Druart (Catholic University of America);
Kent Emery, Jr. (University of Notre Dame);
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago);
James McEvoy (Queen's University, Belfast);
James J. Murphy (University of California, Davis);
John T. Noonan, Jr. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco);
Edward M. Peters (University of Pennsylvania);
Carlos Steel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven);
Baudouin van den Abeele (Université catholique de Louvain);
Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University); and
Chrysogonus Waddell, O.C.S.O. (Abbey of Gethsemani).