Translating Devotional Texts for Medieval Religious Women

我的项目将展示《西昂的果园》（The Orcherd of Syon）是14世纪锡耶纳的凯瑟琳（Catherine of Siena）的拉丁神秘主义论文《对话》（Il Dialogo）的中古英语译本，最初是为男女混合的观众而写的，后来被改编成满足女性观众（西昂修道院的修女）的需求。我将展示《奥查德》的译者如何修改原文的内容、组织和语言，并创造出一个性别化的读者。对《奥查德》的研究有助于我们理解女性观众是如何塑造中世纪晚期英国宗教文学的。

My project will show how The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's fourteenth-century Latin mystical treatise Il Dialogo, originally written for a mixed audience of men and women, was adapted to address the needs of its female audience, the nuns at Syon Abbey. I will demonstrate how the translator of the Orcherd modifies the contents, organisation, and language of the original and creates a gendered reader. Research on the Orcherd will contribute to our understanding of how female audiences shaped the production of Middle English devotional literature in late medieval England.