TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beer,Jeanette M.A.
TI  - A companion to medieval translation /edited by Jeanette Beer
T2  - Arc Humanities Press companions
SN  - 9781641891844
AV  - PN681 .C667 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leeds
PB  - Arc Humanities Press
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - Translations
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Translating
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Preview; Historical Overview; Bibliography; 1. The European Psalms in Translation; Translation for Pedagogy; Translation for Meditation and Deep Personal Understanding; Translation for Public Devotion: The Communal Psalter for Singing and Liturgy; Conclusion; Bibliography; 2. The Old French Bible; Bibliography; 3. Middle English Religious Translation; Bibliography; 4. Bible Translation and Controversy in Late Medieval England; The Two Versions of the Middle English Bible; Opinions about Englishing the Bible; The Middle English Bible and the Constitution Periculosa of 1407The English Bible in the Fifteenth Century; Reversion to the Liturgy and Homiletic Orality; Overview and Summary; Bibliography; 5. Medieval Convent Drama: Translating Scripture and Transforming the Liturgy; Translating Scripture and Liturgy in the Fifteenth Century; Translating the Plays into the Seventeenth Century; Bibliography; 6. Translating Romance in Medieval Norway: Marie de France and Strengleikar; Bibliography; 7. Christine de Pizan, Translator and Translation Critic; Bibliography; 8. Translation, Authority, and the Valorization of the VernacularConclusion; Bibliography; 9. Vernacular Translation in Medieval Italy: Volgarizzamento; What is Volgarizzamento?; A Culture of Translation; Conditions of Early Italian Translation; Outside Tuscany; In Tuscany: Rhetoric and History; Importance of French; Translations of Ancient Texts through French; Popularity of French Romance; Other Latin Sources Transmitted through French; Scientific Sources Translated Directly from Latin; Clerical Translators; Religious Texts; Conclusion: Relation of Volgarizzamento to Humanism; Bibliography; 10. Dante and TranslationBibliography; 11. Chaucer and Translation; Bibliography; 12. Alchemy and Translation; Bibliography; 13. Scientific Translation: A Modern Editor's Perspective; Bibliography; 14. Modern Theoretical Approaches to Medieval Translation; Three (or Four) Signposts; Conclusions; Bibliography; 15. Observations on Translation by a Thirteenth-Century Maître: Li Fet Des Romains; The Prologue; Personal Observations; Sources; Conflicting Information; Fidelity; Rhetorical Devices: digressio, abbreviatio, amplificatio; Conclusion; Bibliography; Epilogue; General Bibliography; 2; b
N2  - This guide to medieval translation covers a broad range of religious and vernacular texts and addresses the theoretical and pragmatic problems faced by modern translators of medieval works as they attempt to mediate between past and present
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