Translatio or the transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : modes and messages /

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Imprint:Turnhout : Brepols ; [Abingdon : Marston, distributor], c2008.
Description:xvi, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 13
Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 13.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7685442
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Other authors / contributors:Hollengreen, Laura Holden.
ISBN:9782503518923 (hbk.)
2503518923 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Other form:Online version: Translatio or the transmission of culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Turnhout : Brepols ; [Abingdon : Marston, distributor], c2008
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Mechanisms for the Transmission of Culture: The Role of 'Place' in the Arts of Memory
  • Arts of Recollection and Cultural Transmission
  • Interpreting the Translator: Ælfric, His Sources, and His Critics
  • From East to West: Translating the Acts of John by Prochorus in Metz in the Thirteenth Century
  • "Spain is Different": The Untold Story of the Translatio of the Passio of St. Catherine of Alexandria
  • Gratuitous Examples and the Grateful Dead: Appropriation and Negotiation of Traditional Narratives in Medieval Exemplary Ghost Stories
  • Vernacular Theology in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes
  • The Iconographic Parodies Bracketing Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
  • The Land Spirit's Rebellion: Icelandic Independence and Religious Conflict in Bárðar saga
  • Richard II and the Cults of Saints George and Edward the Confessor
  • Decoding and Deciphering the Meanings Served at Late Medieval Feasts
  • The Packaging of Spanish Literature for an English-Language Audience
  • Worlds Apart? Chaucerian (Re)Constructions in Britain and America
  • List of Contributors