This book has a twofold purpose. First, it seeks to define the place of vernacular translation within the systems of rhetoric and hermeneutics in the Middle Age

An investigation into the state of translation studies which looks ahead at the direction in which the author sees the field moving. Included are reviews of the

This book analyses collaborative activities across the visual arts to show the power of non-verbal rhetoric in the Middle Ages.

The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the recent "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approach

This study reveals how women’s visionary texts played a central role within medieval discourses of authorship, reading, and devotion. From the twelfth to the