<i>Translatio studii </i>and the Emergence of French as a Language of Letters in the Middle Ages
Serge Lusignan
The polysemy of the word translatio, which means both spatial displacement and transfer from one language to other, was exploited by medieval scholars articulate their thought about relationship between own culture its Greco-Latin Christian heritage. term translatio studii first used justify exclusive right University Paris diffusion knowledge. Inspired example Bible transmitted through three sacred languages, Hebrew, Greek Latin, also borrowed extend vernacular Saint Jerome’s thinking translation. Thus they justified claim that French be considered a lettered like is, for conveying
New medieval literatures