The Medieval Translator, Volume IV

This is the fourth volume in a ground-breaking series of studies of medieval translation theory and practice. These essays represent exciting new work in the important and expanding field of translation studies. They range widely across a variety of literary works of the European Middle Ages and variously invite the reader to situate specific examples of medieval translational practice in a wider cultural and historical frame, by exploring such issues as gender, ethnic identity and medieval authorship.

Roger Ellis is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Cardiff. Since 1987 he has organised conferences on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages and is editor of volumes 1–6 of The Medieval Translator.

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.