Translation and Authority / Authorities in Translation
Edited by Pieter De Leemans Edited by Michele Goyens
The question about the relation between medieval translation practices and authority is a complex and multifaceted one. Depending on one’s decision to focus on the authority of the source-text or of the translated text itself, on the author of the original text, on the translator, or on the user of the translation, it falls apart in several topics to be tackled, such as, just to name a few: To what extent does the authority of the text to be translated affect translational choices? How do translators impose authority on their text? By lending their name to a translation, do they contribute to its authoritative status? After two introductory essays that set the scene for the volume, addressing the above questions from the perspective of translations of authoritative texts into Dutch and French, the focus of the volume shifts to the translators themselves as authorities. A next section deals with the choices of texts to be translated, and the impact these choices have on the translation method. A third part is dedicated to papers that examine the role of the users of the translations. The selection of papers in the present volume gives a good indication of the issues mentioned above, embedded in a fi eld of tension between translations made from a learned language to a vernacular language, translations from one vernacular to another, or even from a vernacular to the Latin language.
- Edited by Pieter De Leemans
- Edited by Michele Goyens
Other Titles in this Series
Pursuing a New Order I
Religious Education in Late Medieval Central and Eastern Central Europe
Volume 17.1
Booldly bot meekly
Essays on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages in Honour of Roger Ellis
Volume 14
Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse
A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790
Volume 9
The Translation of the Works of St Birgitta of Sweden into the Medieval European Vernacular
Volume 7
Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries)
Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings
Volume 21
Linguistic Fragmentation and Cultural Inclusion in the Middle Ages
Translation, Plurilingualism, Multilingualism
Volume 22
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