Medieval Translator IV

Roger Ellis is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. He has published articles, books and papers on medieval translation theory, and on religious and other literature of the later Middle Ages. Ruth Evans is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. She has published articles on medieval drama, medieval translation, and courtly literature and is co-editor of The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect (1993), a collection of feminist re-readings of medieval texts

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors:Introduction: Roger EllisTranslating Past Cultures? Ruth EvansChapter One: Wreaths of Time: the Female Translator in Anglo-Norman Hagiography Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneChapter Two: Al-Harizi's Maqamat: a Tricultural Literary Product? Rina DroryChapter Three: The Complaint of Venus: Chaucer and de Graunson Helen PhillipsChapter Four: Tales of a True Translator: Medieval Literary Theory, Anecdote and Autobiography in Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen Ian JohnsonChapter Five: Charles of Orleans: Translator? Mary-Jo ArnChapter Six: Richard Whitford and Translation Veronica LawrenceChapter Seven: A Medieval Travel Book's Editors and Translators: Managing Style and Accommodating Dialect in Johannes Witte de Hese's Itinerarius Scott WestremChapter Eight: The Translation of the Feminine: Untranslatable Dimensions of the Anchoritic Works Anne SavageChapter Nine: Encoding and Decoding: Metaphorical Discourse of Love in Richard Rolle's Commentary on the First Verses of the Song of Songs Denis ReneveyChapter Ten: Le theologien et le poete: deux traductions en francais moderne de The Cloud of Unknowing Rene TixierSelect BibliographyIndex

It is in the Middle Ages that translation first becomes a self-conscious process; and translation is at the heart of medieval culture. But just as no medievalist can escape involvement in Translation Studies, no student of Translation Studies should be able to ignore the medieval contribution to the subject ... While the study of translation may be a focus for the study of power relations and the rest, it is worth remembering many translators love what they translate. All the contributors here are sensitive to the wider issues their work might imply, and what is striking in the best of them is the sympathy with which they approach texts that were after all concerned as something other than academic exercises. Translation and Literature, Vol. 4