Medieval and Modern Philologies

Series | Medieval and Modern Philologies
Review | Translating: A Journey in Time
Chapter | Translating Medieval Texts

Translating Medieval Texts

Common Issues and Specific Challenges

Abstract

Through a number of examples from medieval Germanic texts, this paper aims to highlight some theoretical and practical issues inherent in the process of presenting modern readers with works conceived in a culturally and historically distant past, and to re-evaluate the role of translations that have the specific function to make ancient texts accessible to a new generation of readers whose knowledge of old stages of modern languages is rapidly decreasing.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Jan. 17, 2018 | Accepted: Feb. 19, 2018 | Published May 24, 2018 | Language: en

Keywords Intertemporal TranslationOld and Middle High GermanTranslation StudiesOld English


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