Medieval Translators and Their Craft - Couverture souple

Beer, Jeanette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0918720966 ISBN 13 : 9780918720962

Editeur : Medieval Institute Publications, 1989

Synopsis

At no time in the history of the West has translation played a more vital role than in the Middle Ages. Centuries before the appearance of the first extant vernacular documents, bilingualism, and preferably trilingualism, was a necessity in the scriptorium and chancery; and since the emergence of Romance had rendered the entire corpus of classical literature incomprehensible to all but the literati, both old and new worlds awaited (re)discovery or, to use Jerome's metaphor, conquest. The diversity of medieval translation is illustrated, although not encompassed, by the diversity of chapters in the present volume. Authors treat the methods and reception of translators of vernacular to Latin and vernacular to vernacular, texts of a variety of genres and many different languages and periods. The collection will present a welcome offering of different scholarly approaches to the critical issue of medieval translators and their craft.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeanette Beer was a professor of French at Purdue University and associate editor of Purdue Studies in Romantic Literature and is professor emerita at Oxford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Medieval Institute Publications
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0918720966
• ISBN 13: 9780918720962
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 438
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible