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This is the fourth volume in a series of studies of medieval translation theory and practice. The essays in the collection range widely across a variety of literary works of the European Middle Ages, and take in a number of different critical issues, including gender, ethnic identity and medieval authorship. The collection represents new work in the expanding field of translation studies.

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It is in the Middle Ages that translation first becomes a self-conscious process; and translation is at the heart of medieval culture. But just as no medievalist can escape involvement in Translation Studies, no student of Translation Studies should be able to ignore the medieval contribution to the subject ... While the study of translation may be a focus for the study of power relations and the rest, it is worth remembering many translators love what they translate. All the contributors here are sensitive to the wider issues their work might imply, and what is striking in the best of them is the sympathy with which they approach texts that were after all concerned as something other than academic exercises. Translation and Literature, Vol. 4 1997

It is in the Middle Ages that translation first becomes a self-conscious process; and translation is at the heart of medieval culture. But just as no medievalist can escape involvement in Translation Studies, no student of Translation Studies should be able to ignore the medieval contribution to the subject ... While the study of translation may be a focus for the study of power relations and the rest, it is worth remembering many translators love what they translate. All the contributors here are sensitive to the wider issues their work might imply, and what is striking in the best of them is the sympathy with which they approach texts that were after all concerned as something other than academic exercises.

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Roger Ellis is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. He has published articles, books and papers on medieval translation theory, and on religious and other literature of the later Middle Ages. Ruth Evans is Lecturer in English Literature, University of Wales, College of Cardiff. She has published articles on medieval drama, medieval translation, and courtly literature and is co-editor of The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect (1993), a collection of feminist re-readings of medieval texts

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