New Techniques for Proving Plagiarism: Case Studies from the Sacred Disciplines at the Pontifical Gregorian University

by M V Dougherty

This book demonstrates that the principles of textual criticism--borrowed from the fields of classics and medieval studies--have a valuable application for plagiarism investigations. Plagiarists share key features with medieval scribes who worked in scriptoriums and produced copies of manuscripts. Both kinds of copyists--scribes and plagiarists--engage in similar processes, and they commit distinctive copying errors. When committed by plagiarists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004699848
• ISBN13: 9789004699847
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 488 Pages