Working closely with academics worldwide, in hopes of facilitating cultural exchange and widening the
circulation of historical and other humanistic research, Viella will now offer in English both original works and
translations of existing studies.
Contamination, influence et pureté
Modern scholars make a pejorative use of the word “contamination”,
always entailing a degradation of the text; in the Middle Ages the
same concept was instead conceived as a form of textual preservation.