Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages

By (author) Jeanette Beer

Book cover: Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval Culture

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 1997)

ISBN: 9781879288829

Price: $89.00

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Hardback (Published)

(July 1997)

ISBN: 9781879288812

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $24.95

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The collection of essays in Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages arose from a translation symposium at the twenty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. The authors treat a wide range of topics: translation between Latin and romance languages, the rise of vernacular canonicity, the interplay of Latin and French in the court of France, the theory of translation evident in Alfred the Great’s ambitious program of translation of religious works from Latin into Old English, questions of the impact of classical admonitions on medieval translation, interpretive translation used to render traditionally masculine heroes as feminine, the interplay of word and image relating to gender issues, and bilingualism, concluding with translation of medieval texts in the modern era. The scholarship on offer here presents a spectacular collection of modern questions of medieval translation, certainly an essential text for all scholars of related issues.

Contents Introduction Translation between Latin and Romance in the Early Middle Ages by Roger Wright The (M)other Tongue: Translation Theory and Old English by Robert Stanton The Fidus interpres: Aid or Impediment to Medieval Translation and Translatio? by Douglas Kelly Translating Job as Female by Ann W. Astell Gender Symbolism and Text Image Relationships: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias by Madeline H. Caviness Scientific Translation and Translator's Glossing in Four Medieval French Translators by Peter F. Dembowski La traduction du latin au francais dans les encyclopedies medievales e partir de l'exemple de la traduction des Otia imperialia de Gervais de Tilbury par Jean de Vignay et Jean d'Antioche by Claude Buridant Medieval Psalm Translation and Literality by Louis G. Kelly Toward a Social Genealogy of Translation Theory: Classical Property Law and Lollard Property Reform by Rita Copeland Written French and Latin at the Court of France at the End of the Middle Ages by Serge Lusignan Translation and Definition in the Medieval Bilingual Dictionary by Brian Merrilees Troy Book: How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin by Christopher Baswell Vernacular Valorizing: Functions and Fashionings of Literary Theory in Middle English Translation of Authority by Ian Johnson Translating Chretien de Troyes: How Faithful? by Willaim W. Kibler On Translating Chretien de Troyes by David Staines, Introduction
Translation between Latin and Romance in the Early Middle Ages by Roger Wright
The (M)other Tongue: Translation Theory and Old English by Robert Stanton
The Fidus interpres: Aid or Impediment to Medieval Translation and Translatio? by Douglas Kelly
Translating Job as Female by Ann W. Astell
Gender Symbolism and Text Image Relationships: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias by Madeline H. Caviness
Scientific Translation and Translator's Glossing in Four Medieval French Translators by Peter F. Dembowski
La traduction du latin au français dans les encyclopédies médiévales e partir de l'exemple de la traduction des Otia imperialia de Gervais de Tilbury par Jean de Vignay et Jean d’Antioche by Claude Buridant
Medieval Psalm Translation and Literality by Louis G. Kelly
Toward a Social Genealogy of Translation Theory: Classical Property Law and Lollard Property Reform by Rita Copeland
Written French and Latin at the Court of France at the End of the Middle Ages by Serge Lusignan
Translation and Definition in the Medieval Bilingual Dictionary by Brian Merrilees
Troy Book: How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin by Christopher Baswell
Vernacular Valorizing: Functions and Fashionings of Literary Theory in Middle English Translation of Authority by Ian Johnson
Translating Chrétien de Troyes: How Faithful? by Willaim W. Kibler
On Translating Chrétien de Troyes by David Staines

  • By (author) Jeanette Beer