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The Medieval Translator f/Traduire au Moyen Age J, ed. Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier (Belgium: Brepols, i996). xvi + 488 pp. ISBN 2-1o3-5o448-5 No price given.
This volume prints selected papers from the fourth Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages held in Conques in July 1993. As with previous volumes emerging from this valuable forum, the papers printed here cover a range of medieval topics and some also address theoretical and practical issues raised by modern translations of medieval texts.
The volume opens with thoughtful reflections by its editors on the need for a more nuanced view of the relationship between medieval translation theory and practice, even within single texts (Ellis), and on the aspiration of mystical and spiritual writers...