Medieval Translatio

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Translation and Transfer of Language, Culture, Literature

Massimiliano Bampi, Stefanie Gropper

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111218861
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors represent Latin, Slavic, English and Scandinavian philologies and deal with very different aspects of translation as for example 'The Aftermath of the Norman Conquest', 'Re-writing parts of Europe in vernacular adaptations of the Imago Mundi', 'Translating A Philosophical Style', 'The Hermeneutics of Animal Voices in Early Medieval England', 'Vernacular Literary Cultures in the Latin West', 'Latin, Medieval Cosmopolitanism, and the Dynamics of Untranslatability', 'Non-Autonomy of South Slavic Metaphrastic Translation', and 'Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis'. It is the aim of all contributions as well as the whole volume to demonstrate the importance of translation in the Middle Ages as a means of not only linguistic transfer but also of a transfer of culture and knowledge.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Translating a Philosophical Style: Thomas Usk’s Boethian Prose
• Latin, Medieval Cosmopolitism, and the Dynamics of Untranslatability
• Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis: Translating Language Through Letters
• Translation, Conquest, and the Law: The Medieval English Experience
• Re-Writing Parts of Europe in Some Vernacular Adaptations of the Imago Mundi
• Non-Autonomy in Old Slavonic Miscellanies: South Slavic Metaphrastic Translations in the Miscellanies of Hesychast and Anti-Latin Contents
• The Many Layers of Translatio: AM 618 4° and the Lives of Manuscripts in Use
• Translation as Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Scandinavia
• Index