Rhetoric and Vernacular Translation in the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Copeland, Rita.

Title
Rhetoric and Vernacular Translation in the Middle Ages

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 41-75.

Description
Medieval vernacular translation recovered the classical merger of rhetorical theory with hermeneutic practice. Ancient and medieval contexts for translation are traced: the practice of rhetorical theory in translation is illustrated in Chaucer's Bo, Form Age, and Walton's version of "De consolatione."

Chaucer Subjects
Boece.
Former Age.