IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 230: Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages, II: Scientific and Technical Writings
Monday 4 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages |
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Organiser: | Victoria Flood, Department of English Studies, Durham University |
Moderator/Chair: | Victoria Flood, Department of English Studies, Durham University |
Paper 230-a | What's Welsh for Mugwort?: Multilingual Medieval Welsh Medical Receipts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science |
Paper 230-b | The Visual Culture of Konungs Skuggsjá (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science |
Paper 230-c | The Insular Reception of Bartholomeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Science |
Paper 230-d | Grosseteste and the Green Knight: Medieval Colour Theory and Early Heraldic Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Heraldry, Language and Literature - Middle English, Science |
Abstract | This session brings together specialists from Scandinavian, Celtic and English Studies to explore the transmission and translation of scientific and technical literature across Insular languages. Papers consider the interaction between Welsh, English and Latin terminology in late medieval Welsh medical receipts; engagements with cosmological diagrams in the Norwegian mirror for princes, Konungs Skuggsjá; the early English and Welsh translations, adaptations and uses of Bartholomeus Anglicus' De proprietatibus rerum; and the influence of Robert Grosseteste's colour theory on 14th-century English heraldic treatises and literary composition more broadly. Speakers explore issues of vernacular translation and adaptation; and the relationship of English, Welsh, and Norse scientific cultures to broader pan-European developments. |