A nice post by David Derrick at the Toynbee Convector about my edition of the Life of St Severinus. He explains the publishing principles behind Rott Publishing:
We are named after Hans Rott (whom else?), a Viennese composer and uncanny anticipator of Mahler who died insane aged twenty-five in 1884. He was taken to an asylum after causing trouble on a train which he believed Brahms was trying to dynamite.
Mommsen in the Scriptores Rerum Germanicorum is the textual arbiter in this Rott text.
Get it for the Kindle and enjoy reading something different: it is short and absorbing.
Rott will provide clean and accurate texts of ancient and modern works that are not easily available online. Or if they are, are not always clean, continuous and accurate or are not for the Kindle.
We will be the only new-style provider of out-of-copyright material for mobile devices that knows the difference between dumb and smart quotes – between straight inverted commas or quotation marks and those shaped like 6s and 9s. I mention this in passing.
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