The Visibility of the Translator: The Speculum Ecclesie and The Mirror of Holy Church.
This article discusses a 13th-century Latin devotional text, the Speculum Ecclesie, originally composed in Latin by Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, and its 15th-century Middle English translation, The Mirror of Holy Church. The Middle English Mirror is on the whole a highly literalist...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 93; no. 3; pp. 537 - 553 |
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