Making the Bible French: The Bible Historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader - Couverture rigide

Patterson, Jeanette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487508883 ISBN 13 : 9781487508883

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2022

Synopsis

From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale was the predominant French translation of the Bible. Enhancing his translation with techniques borrowed from scholastic study, vernacular preaching, and secular fiction, Guyart produced one of the most popular, most widely copied French-language texts of the later Middle Ages.

Making the Bible French investigates how Guyart's first-person authorial voice narrates translation choices in terms of anticipated reader reactions and frames the biblical text as an object of dialogue with his readers. It examines the translator's narrative strategies to aid readers' visualization of biblical stories, to encourage their identification with its characters, and to practice patient, self-reflexive reading. Finally, it traces how the Bible historiale manuscript tradition adapts and individualizes the Bible for each new intended reader, defying modern print-based and text-centred ideas about the Bible, canonicity, and translation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeanette L. Patterson is an associate professor of French, Medieval Studies, and Translation Studies at Binghamton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487508883
• ISBN 13: 9781487508883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
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