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In The Virgin and the Nightingale (1983) she presented in the original Latin and English translation a selection of lyrics from medieval anthologies such as the Cambridge Songs, the Carmina Burana, and the Arundel Lyrics, and from the oeuvre of Peter of Blois.
Latin was not only the principal medium of grammatical manuals inherited from late-imperial teachers of the 4th and 5th centuries, but also the language of the early medieval Church, which was responsible for the preservation and production of written texts and the cultivation of literate education. Consequently, mastery of Latin was a ...
J. D. Burnley, in "Late medieval English translation: types and reflections," attempts to define the task of the medieval translator as he himself might have understood it. To do so, he investigates the contexts in which the medievals discuss writing enditing, and making and juxtaposes their theory with their practice. Although he reaches
Across Europe the Middle Ages saw a blossoming of translations into Latin of philosophical, scientific, and technical material from Greek and Arabic sources, many made by notable British scholars, such as Adelard of Bath and Robert of Chester's translations of mathematical texts.
Latin in medieval Britain was the language of written culture, construed in its broad sense of collection of the ‘ideas, customs, social behaviour, products, or way of life’ ( OED) of British society.
Apr 24, 2023 · The term Medieval Latin refers to Latin from c. 500 until c. 1500 CE. In the first few centuries, Medieval Latin defines texts which contrive to follow the rules of formal literary language, in contrast to Vulgar Latin, which describes the non-formal registers of spoken language.
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When translating late medieval Latin, the choice of text to be used as the basis for translation is crucial to the success of the translation as early reproductions of texts increase the incidence of errors.
