Medieval Translator

NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.

• Introduction - Roger EllisThe fortunes of 'non verbum pro verbo': or, why Jerome is not a Ciceronian - Late medieval English translation: types and reflections - J D BurnleyChaucer as translator - T W MachanPrologue and practice: Middle English lives of Christ - Ian JohnsonDame Eleanor Hull: a fifteenth-century translator - Alexandra BarrattThe Ashmole Sir Ferumbras: translation in holograph - Steven H A ShepherdTranslation as expansion: poetic practice in the Old English Phoenix and some other poems - Anne SavageIpomedon to Ipomadon A: two views of courtliness - Rosalind FieldMalory's questing beast and the implications of author as translator - Catherine BattTranslation and self-canonization in Richard Rolle's Melos Amoris - Nicholas WatsonTransposition: Thomas Usk's Testament of Love - Stephen Medcalf

The study of translation, in fact, has central value for the understanding of mediaeval literature, involving as it does the very question of originality, of the transformation of received materials, and of the relationship between text and language...interesting and useful reading.