Campbell, Emma (2014) The time of translation in Wauchier de Denain’s Histoire des moines d’Égypte. Florilegium, 31 . pp. 1-29. doi:10.3138/flor.31.01

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Abstract

This article explores the temporality of translation in Wauchier de Denain’s Histoire des moines d’Égypte, an early thirteenth-century French rendering of Rufinus of Aquileia’s fourth-century Latin Historia monachorum in Aegypto. Examining relationships not only between source and copy but also between the different narrative perspectives present in the text, Campbell explores the complex ways in which the only complete manuscript of the work presents these perspectives through prose and verse, French and Latin, text and image. She argues that the Histoire encourages reflection on the ways in which translation cultivates temporal as well as linguistic and cultural heterogeneity, an issue that has been given scant attention in translation studies.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Wauchier de Denain, active 12th century, Latin literature -- Translations -- French, Latin literature -- Translations -- History and criticism, Egypt -- In literature, Egyptians in literature
Journal or Publication Title:	Florilegium
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
ISSN:	0709-5201
Official Date:	2014
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published 31 August 2014 Accepted
Volume:	31
Page Range:	pp. 1-29
DOI:	10.3138/flor.31.01
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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