Author: Thomas (of Kent)
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Bruce R. O'Brien
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490537
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conquered, from Old English into Latin? Solving this puzzle meant asking questions about what medieval writers thought about language and translation, what created the need and desire to translate, and how translators went about the work. These are the questions Reversing Babel attempts to answer by providing evidence that comes from the world in which not just Norman translators of law but any translators of any texts, regardless of languages, did their translating Reversing Babel reaches back from 1066 to the translation work done in an earlier conquest-a handful of important works translated in the ninth century in response to the alleged devastating effect of the Viking invasions-and carries the analysis up to the wave of Anglo-French translations created in the late twelfth century when England was a part of a large empire, ruled by a king from Anjou who held power not only in western France from Normandy in the north to the Pyrenees in the south, but also in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. In this longer and wider view, the impact of political events on acts of translation is more easily weighed against the impact of other factors such as geography, travel, trade, community, trends in learning, ideas about language, and habits of translation. These factors colored the contact situations created in England between speakers and readers of different languages during perhaps the most politically unstable period in English history. The variety of medieval translation among the English, and among those translators working in the greater empires of Cnut, the Normans, and the Angevins, is remarkable. Reversing Babel does not try to describe all of it; rather, it charts a course through the evidence and tries to answer the fundamental questions medieval historians should ask when their sources are medieval translations.

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Category : Romance languages
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: René Bouchet
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
ISBN: 9782251339498
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : fr
Pages : 336

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Parmi les oeuvres de fiction qu'a produites la litterature europeenne au Moyen Age, les romans grecs ecrits en langue vulgaire et en vers de quinze syllabes sont restes voues a une regrettable obscurite, faute de traductions en francais et dans la plupart des langues modernes. Ces oeuvres dues a des auteurs anonymes de l'epoque des Paleologues (XIIIe-XVe siecles) - romans de chevalerie et romans a sujet antique - continuent la tradition romanesque locale, qui va du roman sophistique de l'Antiquite au roman byzantin de l'epoque des Comnenes (XIIe siecle), mais la conjuguent avec l'apport des romans medievaux ecrits en ancien francais, auxquels ils empruntent parfois leur sujet. Ils doivent aussi, sans doute, a l'epopee de Digenis Akritas, et participent a la naissance d'une litterature orale que la culture savante de Byzance ignorait, mais que la Grece ne cessera des lors de cultiver. Ils sont le produit de la rencontre entre les civilisations hellenique et latine qu'a suscitee, apres la prise de Constantinople en 1204, l'installation durable des croises sur certains territoires de l'Empire byzantin demembre.Rene Bouchet est professeur de grec moderne a l'Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis. Il a deja publie dans la meme collection une traduction de la Chronique de Moree.

Author: Milan Sylvanus La Du
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Milan S. La Du
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Leslie Benadiba
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105664627
Category : Education
Languages : fr
Pages : 102

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Tout le monde peut réussir une dissertation en Français ! Il suffit d'en maîtriser les outils. Cet ouvrage propose une méthode innovante pour comprendre cette épreuve.Vous y trouverez des exemples expliqués et réutilisables, des dissertations rédigées et surtout une vraie technique d'exercice pour comprendre les grandes problématiques du roman.

Author: Alexandre (de Bernay)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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