Introduction: Rethinking Medieval Translation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Introduction: Rethinking Medieval Translation 1
7. 1 On Not Knowing Greek: Leonzio Pilatus’s Rendition of the Iliad and the Translatio of Mediterranean Identities* 21
8. 2 Translation and Transformation in the Ovide moralisé 41
9. 3 Translating Lucretia: Word, Image and ‘Ethical Non-Indifference’ in Simon de Hesdin’s Translation of Valerius Maximus’s Facta et dicta memorabilia 61
10. 4 Translating Catharsis: Aristotle and Averroës, the Scholastics and the Basochiens 84
11. 5 The Ethics of Translatio in Rutebeuf ’s: Miracle de Théophile 107
12. 6 Invisible Translation, Language Difference and the Scandal of Becket’s Mother 125
13. 7 Medieval Fixers: Politics of Interpreting in Western Historiography 147
14. 8 The Task of the Dérimeur: Benjamin and Translation into Prose in Fifteenth-Century French Literature* 164
15. 9 The Translator as Interpretant: Passing in/on the Work of Ramon Llull 184
16. 10 Rough Translation: Charles d’Orléans, Lydgate and Hoccleve 204
17. 11 Bueve d’Hantone/Bovo d’Antona: Exile, Translation and the History of the Chanson de geste 226
18. Untranslatable: A Response 243
19. Bibliography 257
20. Index 285