Medieval Translatio: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Translation and Transfer of Language, Culture, Literature

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors represent Latin, Slavic, English and Scandinavian philologies and deal with very different aspects of translation as for example ‘The Aftermath of the Norman Conquest’, ‘Re-writing parts of Europe in vernacular adaptations of the Imago Mundi’, ‘Translating A Philosophical Style’, ‘The Hermeneutics of Animal Voices in Early Medieval England’, ‘Vernacular Literary Cultures in the Latin West’, ‘Latin, Medieval Cosmopolitanism, and the Dynamics of Untranslatability’, ‘Non-Autonomy of South Slavic Metaphrastic Translation’, and ‘Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis’. It is the aim of all contributions as well as the whole volume to demonstrate the importance of translation in the Middle Ages as a means of not only linguistic transfer but also of a transfer of culture and knowledge. Frontmatter I Acknowledgements V Contents VII Introduction Massimiliano Bampi and Stefanie Gropper 1 Translating a Philosophical Style: Thomas Usk’s Boethian Prose Rita Copeland 11 Latin, Medieval Cosmopolitism, and the Dynamics of Untranslatability Wim Verbaal 27 Alexander and the Ars Dictaminis: Translating Language Through Letters Alex Mueller 43 Translation, Conquest, and the Law: The Medieval English Experience Bruce O’Brien 67 Re-Writing Parts of Europe in Some Vernacular Adaptations of the Imago Mundi Natalia I. Petrovskaia 81 Non-Autonomy in Old Slavonic Miscellanies: South Slavic Metaphrastic Translations in the Miscellanies of Hesychast and Anti-Latin Contents Marijana Vuković 103 The Many Layers of Translatio: AM 618 4° and the Lives of Manuscripts in Use Karl G. Johansson 123 Translation as Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Scandinavia Massimiliano Bampi and Stefanie Gropper 149 Index 175