IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1104: Medieval Latin: Lost in Translation?

Sponsor:	Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Latin Series
Organiser:	Danuta Shanzer, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Dumbarton Oaks Medieval (Latin) Library
Moderator/Chair:	John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper 1104-a	Grappling with William of Malmesbury (Language: English) Michael Winterbottom, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 1104-b	The Perils of Translation: Bass Ackwards between Scylla and Charybdis? (Language: English) Danuta Shanzer, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Dumbarton Oaks Medieval (Latin) Library Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 1104-c	The Acknowledgements of Augustine: Recent English Versions of the Confessiones (Language: English) Philip Hugh Burton, Institute of Textual Scholarship & Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	This session focuses on the history of the translation of medieval Latin, general problems faced by translators of medieval Latin texts, and the specific difficulties presented by one medieval historiographer, William of Malmesbury. The speakers are editor-translators who specialise in various medieval Latins.