The Culture of Translation
This is a great article by Marķa Rosa Menocal about the powerful Arabic impact on the transformation and shaping of European culture.
The new and often revolutionary cultures of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe were often provoked or shaped by an Arabic culture that traveled throughout Europe in many guises, in translations of a hundred varieties, in attitudes about culture, or in songs that were sung and heard and then played again in a different language.It would even be fair to say that European culture from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries is a culture of translation whose monuments are not only new texts in a new language but, no less, the memory of the older language and civilization.
Read the whole article : The Culture of Translation.
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