Ars edendi is a Research Programme funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for two four-year periods, beginning January 2008, and based at the section for Classical Languages at Stockholm University.

The Programme is conceived as a laboratory of editorial philology concerned primarily with Medieval Latin and Greek texts. Model editions representing various textual categories will be produced, and a final methodological study is to be published. An international, interdisciplinary network of scholars will be engaged in discussing the textual choices, development and results of the Programme.

Texts of relevance are those that present challenges to traditional editorial methods and even to the concept of author and authorial intention. Often these will be compiled or multilevel works that may be classified as auxiliary texts: from commentaries and scholia to florilegia and encyclopaedias as well as various forms of liturgical compositions. They are often, though not always, represented in a bewildering number of manuscripts and versions, difficult to encapsulate in an edition.

Four Fields of Research covering specific types of texts have been chosen on the basis of the past research of the original core members of Ars edendi. Other scholars can participate in Ars edendi as collaborating members or, when posts become available, as salaried members. The addition of new scholars may introduce other textual categories into the Programme’s general framework. As the issues dealt with are not necessarily conditioned by language but by genre, other projects involving text material in other languages could be incorporated at a later stage.