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From the Vulgate to the Vernacular - Four Debates on an English Question c.1400 (Hardcover)
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From the Vulgate to the Vernacular - Four Debates on an English Question c.1400 (Hardcover)
Series: British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as
reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the
apostles' speaking in tongues after the Ascension, and
historically, where arguments about it were dominant in Councils,
such as those of Trent or the Second Vatican Council of 1962-64,
which, it should be recalled, privileged the use of the vernacular
in liturgy. The four texts edited here discuss the legitimacy of
using the vernacular language for scriptural citation. This
question in England became central to the perception of the
followers of John Wyclif (sometimes known as Lollards): between
1409 and 1530 the use of English scriptures was severely impeded by
the established church, and an episcopal licence was required for
its possession or dissemination. The issue evidently aroused
academic interest, especially in Oxford, where the first complete
English translation seems to have originated. The three Latin works
here survive complete each in a single manuscript: of these texts
two, written by a Franciscan, William Butler, and by a Dominican,
Thomas Palmer, are wholly hostile to translation. The third, the
longest and most perceptive, edited here for the first time,
emerges as written by a secular priest of impressive learning,
Richard Ullerston; his other writings display his radical, but not
unorthodox opinions. The only English work here is a Wycliffite
adaptation of Ullerston's Latin. The volume provides editions and
modern translations of these four texts, together with a
substantial introduction explaining their context and the
implications of their arguments, and encouraging further
exploration of the perceptions of the nature of language that are
displayed there, many of which, and notably of Ullerston, are in
advance of those of his contemporaries.
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