Classical Authors

Author / Editor
Medcalf, Stephen.

Title
Classical Authors

Published
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 364-90.
Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici, eds. The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf (London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2010), pp. 41-63.

Description
Surveys the tradition of medieval translation from Latin into English, commenting on Continental mediators and awareness of Greek literature. Focuses on translations of Boethius (including Chaucer's) and those of Apollonius of Tyre, treating them as representative. Also considers translations from Ovid and Virgil, especially those by Chaucer and Gower.
Reprinted as "Classical Translation in Medieval England" in Brian Cummings and Gabriel Josipovici, eds. The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf (London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2010), pp. 41-63.

Alternative Title
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550.
"Classical Translation in Medieval England."
Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations