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• @article{MZN2010,
  	vgclass =	{refpap},
  	author =	{Mews, Constant J. and Tomas Zahora
  	and Dmitri Nikulin and David Squire},
  	title =	{The \emph{Speculum morale} (c.\ 1300) and the study of
  	textual transformations: a research project in progress},
  	journal =	{Vincent of Beauvais Newsletter},
  	volume =	{35},
  	pages =	{5--15},
  	year =	{2010},
  	url =	{/publications/postscript/2010/MewsZahoraNikulinSquire2010.pdf},
  	abstract =	{The \emph{Speculum morale}, last printed in 1624 as the
  	third of four books making up the \emph{Speculum maius} of Vincent of
  	Beauvais, is an encyclopaedia of human behaviour, divided into three
  	constituent books.  Yet because of the coincidence of identical text in
  	the \emph{Speculum morale} and the \emph{Summa theologiae} of Thomas
  	Aquinas the attribution to Vincent has been seen as problematic at
  	least since the late fifteenth century.  In 1708 the French Dominican
  	scholar Jacques Echard published a massive (668pp) study of the
  	work---arguments that he subsequently summarized within his
  	continuation to Quetif's \emph{Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum}
  	(1719)---in which he demonstrated that the \emph{Speculum morale} cannot
  	have been written by Vincent of Beauvais.  Endowed with a prodigious
  	capacity to recognise and identify Latin texts, and influenced by early
  	enlightenment notions of plagiarism, Echard described how he came upon
  	this realisation in 1704 while working in the library of Saint-Victor.
  	He argued that the \emph{Speculum morale} had not only borrowed on
  	occasion from Aquinas but the entire work had been plagiarized from the
  	writings of various moral theologians from the thirteenth century:
  	Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Etienne de Bourbon (d. c. 1261), Peter of
  	Tarentaise (1225-1276), the Franciscan Richard of Middleton (c.
  	1249-1302), and an anonymous author of \emph{Tractatus de
  	consideratione novissimorum}. Echard's assessment of the \emph{Speculum
  	morale} as a derivative compilation has led to the work being largely
  	neglected by subsequent scholarship.
  	
  	This article summarizes a research project on the \emph{Speculum
  	morale} currently being undertaken at Monash University, Australia that
  	seeks to rectify this situation. It considers the limitations of simply
  	dismissing the work as `plagiarism' and instead draws attention to the
  	potential significance of studying how texts can be subtly transformed
  	in the process of compilation. The project involves co-operation
  	between medievalists and IT specialists in transforming what is
  	commonly called `plagiarism' detection software into text similarity
  	detection software, with particular relevance to Latin texts.},
  }