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Translatio, or, The transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : modes and messages / edited by Laura H. Hollengreen.

Title
Translatio, or, The transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : modes and messages / edited by Laura H. Hollengreen.
Publication
Turnhout : Brepols, c2008.

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Additional Authors
Hollengreen, Laura Holden.
Description
xvi, 255 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume presents an array of instances of cultural translation between nations, religions, languages, genres and media. It spans a chronological period that extends from late antiquity to the sixteenth century.
Series Statement
Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 13
Uniform Title
Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance v. 13.
Alternative Title
  • Translatio
  • Transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Subject
  • Geschichte 1000-1600
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
  • Civilization, Medieval
  • Transmission of texts
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Laura Hollengreen -- Mechanisms for the Transmission of Culture; The Role of 'Place' in the Arts of Memory / Mary Carruthers -- Arts of Recollection and Cultural Transmission / Rebeca Helfer -- Interpreting the Translator: AElfric, His Sources, and His Critics / Rhonda L. McDaniel -- From East to West: Translating the Acts of John by Prochorus in Metz in the Thirteen the Century / Damien Kempf -- "Spain is Different": The Untold Story of the Translatio of the Passio of St. Catherine of Alexandria / Margaret Parker -- Gratuitous Examples and the Grateful Dead: Appropriation and Negotiation of Traditional Narratives in Medieval Exemplary Ghost Stories / Hans Peter Broedel -- Vernacular Theology in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes / Wendy A. Matlock -- Iconographic Parodies Bracketing Chaucer's Summoner's Tale / Marijane Osborn and Harry Enfijian -- Land Spirit's Rebellion: Icelandic Independence and Religious Conflict in Baroar saga / Janice Hawes -- Richard II and the Cults of Saints George and Edward the Confessor / Jonathan Good -- Decoding and Deciphering the Meanings Served at Late Medieval Feasts / Ken Fullam -- Packaging of Spanish Literature for an English-Language Audience / Charlotte Ward -- Worlds Apart? Chaucerian (Re)Constructions in Britain and America Geoffrey Gust.
ISBN
  • 9782503518923 (hbk.)
  • 2503518923 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 261965928
  • SCSB-11085502
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library