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Reversing Babel: Translation Among the English During an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200
Bruce R. O´brien
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Description for Reversing Babel: Translation Among the English During an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200
Hardback. 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 charts a course through the evidence and tries to answer the fundamental questions medieval historians should ask when their sources are medieval translations. Num Pages: 362 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
362
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490527
SKU
V9781611490527
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About Bruce R. O´brien
Bruce O'Brien is professor of history at the University of Mary Washington, a visiting fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School. He is also chair of the literary board of the Early English Laws project.
Reviews for Reversing Babel: Translation Among the English During an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200
In this thoughtful and thought-provoking work, Bruce R. O’Brien reviews evidence of translation practices in England, mainly involving English, Latin, and French, over four centuries, from the height of the first wave of Viking invasions to the aftermath of what he calls the Angevin Conquest of 1154. ... The real strength of this book, however, lies not in broad conclusions ... Read more