Translating Power and Knowledge at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Burgundy
David Joseph Wrisley
Fundamental to all translation work, the concept of “displacement” allows one take into account multiple successive states inhering in a single text, and interpret these variations. Translation is, effect, form transfer; more specifically, it involves movement from context another, be national, social, political, historical, linguistic or religious. The texts examined here illustrate, each their unique way, relationship between contextual change audience. They are also product subtle interactions variety elements, result which is “reinvention” respective roles uses over time. For example, text intending entertain may have educational outcomes; book local miracles attract pilgrims contribute economic life monastery; its translations at some point appropriated for polemical purposes, while library translated founded on humanist principals serve political ends.
The Medieval translator