CTIS Research Seminar: 'Liberte to al Britane': Translating Tacitus in Scotland (1531-36)
| Dates: | 3 March 2016 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | John-Mark Philo |
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The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of Shakespeare’s plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a central role in the period’s political, cultural, and literary achievements. This seminar focuses on the earliest extant translation of Tacitus in the British Isles by the poet and translator John Bellenden for The Hystory and Cronikles of Scotland (1531). Here we will be considering exactly what was at stake in translating this most enigmatic of Roman authors into Middle Scots.
Speaker
John-Mark Philo
Organisation: University of Oxford
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Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
