Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis: Translating Language Through Letters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Translating a Philosophical Style: Thomas Usk’s Boethian Prose 11
6. Latin, Medieval Cosmopolitism, and the Dynamics of Untranslatability 27
7. Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis: Translating Language Through Letters 43
8. Translation, Conquest, and the Law: The Medieval English Experience 67
9. Re-Writing Parts of Europe in Some Vernacular Adaptations of the Imago Mundi 81
10. Non-Autonomy in Old Slavonic Miscellanies: South Slavic Metaphrastic Translations in the Miscellanies of Hesychast and Anti-Latin Contents 103
11. The Many Layers of Translatio: AM 618 4° and the Lives of Manuscripts in Use 123
12. Translation as Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Scandinavia 149
13. Index 175