Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Introduction to the scholarly handlings of texts, whether ancient or modern, including inscrip- tions, manuscripts, and archival documents. Instruction in the methodologies, tools, sources, and the editing and use of texts in history. Analysis of archival structure and organization and of questions of document authorship, provenance, paleography, lan- guage and syntax, internal structure, and variant texts. E. Russian. Each segment is repeatable to a maxi- mum of 12 units.