02642nam 2200613 a 450 991096259240332120240516075208.01-61149-727-21-283-14594-497866131459491-61149-052-9(CKB)2550000000041831(EBL)718688(OCoLC)742333304(SSID)ssj0000540868(PQKBManifestationID)11356761(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540868(PQKBWorkID)10492801(PQKB)10503291(Au-PeEL)EBL718688(CaPaEBR)ebr10519531(CaONFJC)MIL314594(MiAaPQ)EBC718688(EXLCZ)99255000000004183120110302d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReversing Babel translation among the English during an age of conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200 /by Bruce R. O'Brien1st ed.Newark University of Delaware Pressc20111 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-053-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Figures and Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Ch01. Language and Translation in Early Medieval England; Ch02. Language Contact in Conquered England; Ch03. Motives; Ch04. Methods: Practical Matters; Ch05. Methods: Translators' Choices; Ch06. Final Observations; Appendix. Principal and Representative Translations; Works Cited; Index; About the AuthorThe variety of medieval translation among the English, and among those translators working in the greater empires of Cnut, the Normans, and the Angevins, is remarkable. Reversing Babel does not try to describe all of it; rather, it charts a course through the evidence and tries to answer the fundamental questions medieval historians should ask when their sources are medieval translations.Translating and interpretingHistoryTo 1500Civilization, MedievalLiterature, MedievalTranslationsHistory and criticismTranslating and interpretingHistoryCivilization, Medieval.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticism.418/.02094209021O'Brien Bruce R1855686MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962592403321Reversing Babel4453996UNINA