From the Vulgate to the Vernacular
Four Debates on an English Question c.1400
$577.19
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2021
Summary
Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles’ speaking in tongues after the Ascension, and historically, where arguments about it were dominant in Councils, such as those of Trent or the Second Vatican Council of 1962-64, which, it should be recalled, privileged the use of the vernacular in liturgy.
The four texts edited here discuss the legitimacy of using the vernacular language for scriptu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851245635 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851245634 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Solopova, Jeremy Catto, Anne Hudson |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Imprint: | Bodleian Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
| Series: | British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period |
About The Author
Elizabeth Solopova
ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA is a Research Fellow and lecturer at the English Faculty, University of Oxford.
ANNE HUDSON is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Emerita (personal chair) of Medieval English at the English Faculty and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
JEREMY CATTO (1939–2018) was Fellow Emeritus of Oriel College in the University of Oxford.
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