Jeanette Beer was a professor of French at Purdue University and associate editor of Purdue Studies in Romantic Literature and is professor emerita at Oxford University.

Contents Introduction Translation between Latin and Romance in the Early Middle Ages by Roger Wright The (M)other Tongue: Translation Theory and Old English by Robert Stanton The Fidus interpres: Aid or Impediment to Medieval Translation and Translatio? by Douglas Kelly Translating Job as Female by Ann W. Astell Gender Symbolism and Text Image Relationships: Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias by Madeline H. Caviness Scientific Translation and Translator's Glossing in Four Medieval French Translators by Peter F. Dembowski La traduction du latin au francais dans les encyclopedies medievales e partir de l'exemple de la traduction des Otia imperialia de Gervais de Tilbury par Jean de Vignay et Jean d'Antioche by Claude Buridant Medieval Psalm Translation and Literality by Louis G. Kelly Toward a Social Genealogy of Translation Theory: Classical Property Law and Lollard Property Reform by Rita Copeland Written French and Latin at the Court of France at the End of the Middle Ages by Serge Lusignan Translation and Definition in the Medieval Bilingual Dictionary by Brian Merrilees Troy Book: How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin by Christopher Baswell Vernacular Valorizing: Functions and Fashionings of Literary Theory in Middle English Translation of Authority by Ian Johnson Translating Chretien de Troyes: How Faithful? by Willaim W. Kibler On Translating Chretien de Troyes by David Staines