Latin and Vernacular

This collection of new essays, substantial expansions and elaborations of papers read at the 1987 York Manuscripts Conference, focuses on the complex relationship between Latin and vernacular in late-medieval texts and manuscripts. It includes examinations of many facets of bilingual literary culture, covering texts which incorporate both Latin and English materials, texts which are extant in both Latin and English versions, and texts which illustrate the problems and implications of translating Latin into English. Attention is paid to the ways in which the supposed difference in status of these two languages is reflected in literary and codicological practice. There are also discussions of the production of both Latin and vernacular manuscripts in the province of York during the late 14th and 15th centuries, and of the European dissemination of some spiritual writings in Latin. There is much to stimulate the critic as well as the codicologist, and those with broad interests in late-medieval literary culture as well as specialists inmedieval literature and languages.

ISBN 0859912868   Pages 163 ISBN13 9780859912860 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 454 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd   Published in Cambridge Imprint D.S. Brewer   Series ISSN 0955-966 Format Hardback   Series title York Manuscripts Conferences Publication date 02 Nov 1989   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress Z115.E5L38   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 091.0942   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC19

Compilatio and the wife of Bath - Latin backgrounds, Ricardian texts, Ralph Hanna III; Gower's Latin in the confession amantis, Derek Pearasall; English andLatin versions of FitzRalph's Sermons, T.P. Dolan; the evolution of the Speculum Christiani, Vincent Gillespie; four middle english translations of John of Ardene, Peter Jones; the character of the Carecter - ambiguous sigils in scientific and medical texts, Linda Ehrsham Voigts; books, owners and makers in fifteenth-century Yorkshire - the evidence from some Wills and extant manuscripts, J.B. Friedman; the European circulation of three Latin spiritual texts, A.I. Doyle.

'The wide diversity of focus and methodology in this collection of eight papers offers something to readers with interests ranging from the purely codicological through source study to contemporary criticism. This variety demonstrates once more the necessary interdependence of archeologie du livre and literary study of manuscript culture.' David Townsend, REV ENGLISH STUDIES 42, 168; 1 archeologie du livreand literary study of manuscript culture.' 11/91 A distinguished collection which highlights the range of literary activity during the period and raises important theoretical issues. YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES 70 (1989)

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