Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture

Author / Editor
Collette, Carolyn.

Title
Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture

Published
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and others, eds. Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c.1100-c.1500 (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2009), pp. 373-85.

Description
Collette explores interest in "mediation and moderation" in vernacular texts, commenting on the vernacular as a way to make learning more broadly available, on "the mean" in such texts as Nicole Oresme's translations of Aristotle, and on Chaucer's uses of ideas of moderation in ClT, ParsT, and, especially, Mel.

Alternative Title
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c.1100-c.1500.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee
Clerk and His Tale
Parson and His Tale