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Translation history

Summary • Early history of translation studies – Cicero and St. Jerome (what did they do/how/why are they relevant to translation studies?) St. Jerome – Greek scholar, did some translation work. Lived during the 4th century. Jerome is best known as the translator of the Bible into Latin. A previous version (now called the Old Latin) existed, but Jerome's version far surpassed it in scholarship and in literary quality. Jerome was well versed in classical Latin (as well as Greek and Hebrew), but deliberately translated the Bible into the style of Latin that was actually spoken and written by the majority of persons in his own time. This kind of Latin is known as Vulgate Latin (meaning the Latin of the common

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History of the English language

· The Wars of the Roses (1455 ­ 1485) ­ the remaining French-speaking noblemen killed one another off! 1362 English becomes the language of Parliament and the courts of law. · 1485 ­ end of the Wars of the Roses · 1500 ­ turn of the century · 1533 ­ Reformation (Henry VIII) · Individual responsibility before God, no need for the mediation of the (Roman Catholic) Church · Need for religious literature, particularly the Bible, in the vernacular ­ the language of the native speakers (as opposed to Latin as a lingua franca) · Need for general literacy · Renaissance- Need for terminology and new (scientific, philosophical, etc) vocabulary in the vernacular The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in the south of England between 1450 and 1750. First studied by Otto Jespersen, who coined the term

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British test 2 questions

Many reforms were done. Victorian age was from 1837-1901. It was a time of prosperity. Industry grew and British Empire evolved. 6. What was the idea of Anglicanism? Calvinism? Anglicalism is not so very different from Catholicism in its organisation and ritual. But in the lowlands of Scotland it took a more idealistic form. Calvinism with its strict insistence on simplicity and its dislike of ritual and celebration became the dominant religion in England. 7. Who was the king who took the Union Flag into use? Why is it called the Union Flag? King James I took the Union Flag into use. The flag was a symbol of the united countries ­ England and Scotland and the flag combined the English flag of St. George with the Scottish flag of St. Andrew. 8. What is the Gunpowder Plot? Why was it organised? Gunpowder Plot was the name of the conspiracy by Catholics who tried to kill James and the Members of the Parliament to regain for their religion the

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Queen Mary I of England

1.SLAID Queen Mary I of England was born February 18, 1516. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Mary was the only child from that union to survive infancy. She ruled as Queen of England from July 19, 1553 until her death on November 17, 1558. This era was known as the Marian Exile 2.SLAID Queen Mary I was rejected by her father during his divorce from her mother.

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century. The author is unknown and the manuscript is kept in the British Museum (near Trafalgar Square). The story is very important as it allows us to lear about the way of life in the 4th century. The characters can be divided into two groups ­ fictitious and historical. The epic deploys many metaphors - e.g. the sea = the swan's road, body = a house for bones ­ and alliteration. It is structured as two parts. In the first part King Hroghtgar, king of Danes built a palace ­ Hereot ­ near a lake. He disturbed the lake monsters sleep with his racuous parties. Grendel then goes to the castle every night and kidnaps a man. This went on for 12 years. Beowulf, a young viking, decides to put an end to it. He chooses 14 men to join him and sails across the strait ­ with no weapns, mind you, because Grendel fought unarmed and Beowulf was an idiot ­ however according to the rules of fiction he defeats Grendel

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Medieval literature

Medieval literature Religious literature- mostly written in church languages(Latin, Greek, Old Slavic) Secular literature- written in vernacular languages as well 6th -15th century Anonymity Religious writing Liturgical writing-hymns, psalms Theological writing-aquinas, abelard etc Religious poetry Mystery plays-reenactment of bible stories Secular writing Troubadour writing:"courtly love", romance Epic poem(song of roland) Travel writing History writing-chronicles Allegory The use of symbols and analogy to convey a certain meaning /message Literary output of medieval English Anglo-saxon or Old English literature(7th century-1066) Middle english literature(12th century-15th century) End of the period:1470s chancery standard(regulating english) and onset of renaissance Middle English literature

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The Renaissance

The Renaissance Between 14th and 16th century in Europe From French word rebirth It was an age of growth in Europe. New, powerful city states emerged. A new middle class had more and more money to spend. Great artists, writers and thinkers lived during this time. During the Middle Ages many people who lived in the countryside worked on the land that they got from the noblemen. In return, they were protected by them Between the middle and the end of the 14th century, the plague, also called "Black Death" killed almost half of Europe's population. It spread most rapidly in the larger cities where many people lived. This led to economic depression. When the plague slowly decreased in the 15th century, the population in Europe began to grow. A new middle class emerged --bankers, merchants and trades people had a new market for their services. People became wealthier and had more than enough money to spend. They began to build larger houses, buy more expensive cloth

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Nali: The World According to Student Bloopers

Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cul- tivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made

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