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Review: Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230
No full textSara McDougall, Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Print, 336 pp., £65.00, ISBN: 13: 9780198785828
Aphra Behn: Cultural Translator and Editorial Intermediary
Get PDFThe complex production of translation and editorial intermediation is a timeless, often contentious issue. In the seventeenth century, Abraham Cowley and John Dryden dominated a debate that centred on fidelity to authorial copy. The widowed, self-supporting Aphra Behn, who translated from French in the late seventeenth century to earn an income, acknowledged this debate and indicated her preference for Dryden’s translation practice of latitude in her epistolary dedication in the preliminary matter of Agnes de Castro: or, The Force of Generous Love (1688), which was originally written by Jean-Baptiste de Brilhac and entitled Agnès de Castro, Nouvelle Portugaise (1688). Behn wrote: ‘’Twas a Lady that writ the Original, and, I hope, I have not taken off from the Lustre of her admirable Piece by putting it into our Language’. Behn’s latitude respected authorial intention but adapted the text when literal translation proved difficult.This paper dips below the discursive surface to provide a new way of analysing Behn’s work. Comparing de Brilhac’s original with Behn’s translation reveals the latter’s editorial intermediation. Behn used stagecraft techniques to create the narrative scene, paratextual asides to establish her authorial voice and editorial intermediation, and editorial techniques such as italicisation and capitalisation to further this intermediation and transmit meaning. Admittedly, Behn’s practice often deviated from theory; nevertheless, such analysis reveals her editorial humanity
Review: The Capetian Century, 1214–1314
No full textWilliam Chester Jordan and Jenna Rebecca Phillips, eds., The Capetian Century, 1214–1314. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 22. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). Print, 362 pp., €100.00, ISBN: 9782503567181
Review: The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity
No full textGeorge E. Demacopoulos, The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.) Print, 262 pp., £24.99, ISBN: 9780812223699
Review: The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900–1200
No full textDaniel M. G. Gerrard, The Church at War: The Military Activities of Bishops, Abbots and Other Clergy in England, c. 900–1200 (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2017). Print, 320pp., £110.00, ISBN: 9781472423757
Review: Texts, Practices, and Groups: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the History of Jesus’ Followers in the First Two Centuries
No full textAdriana Destro and Mauro Pesce, eds., Texts, Practices, and Groups: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the History of Jesus’ Followers in the First Two Centuries (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2017). Print, 918 pp. €131.37, ISBN: 9782503569017
Review: Danes in Wessex: The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England c. 800–c. 1000
No full textRyan Lavelle and Simon Roffey, eds., Danes in Wessex: The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England c. 800–c. 1000 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2016). Print, 272 pp., £45, ISBN: 9781782979319
Review: Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
No full textJames Daybell and Andrew Gordon, eds., Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 (London & New York: Routledge, 2016). Print, 258 pp., £110.00, ISBN: 9781472478269
Review: The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment
No full textHenry Ansgar Kelly, The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Print, 368 pp., £58.00, ISBN: 9780812248340
