'Spearca... soethfæstnesse' ('spark of truth'): the Materiality of Language in Early Medieval English Translation Culture

我的研究领域是集中在第九和第十世纪早期的英语翻译的高度影响力和复杂的文本，可追溯到古代晚期。我特别感兴趣的是翻译理论和语言自我意识的模式，这些理论是用拉丁文写成的，早期的英语学者可以使用，以及它们对盎格鲁-撒克逊翻译文化发展的影响，特别是对阿尔弗雷德文本语料库的影响。然而，应当指出，这一语料库绝不是一个固定或同质的文本。通过借鉴语言数据，历史证据和文学方法，我的目标是扩大对征服前英格兰存在的动态和复杂的盎格鲁-拉丁环境的理解。这种方法补充了当前对中世纪早期英格兰作为一个多语言和多文化环境的重视。我还想参与最近在翻译研究和物质文化研究中进行的学术研究，并考虑它们如何促进接近阿尔弗雷德文本的新方法以及各个翻译之间的关系。这似乎是一个及时的干预，可以利用我的主要文本的新版本和最近出版的版本（Susan Irvine和Malcolm Godden的2009年版“古英语Boethius”和Godden的2016年版“古英语Orosius”，标题为“古英语世界史”），以及Leslie Lockett为敦巴顿奥克斯中世纪图书馆系列即将出版的“古英语独白”。虽然我的研究将集中在阿尔弗雷德的翻译，但我也会在适当的时候借鉴其他古英语和盎格鲁-拉丁语作品。这样的过程将涉及到不经常研究的文本与世纪末和10世纪初的白话翻译，如阿尔昆的论文，“Liber Scintillarum”，和Alfrec的“语法”和“座谈会”。考虑到当前的研究重点，这种更广泛的参与尤其重要，因为它突出了文本，这些文本往往有众多的手稿见证人表明了广泛的盎格鲁-撒克逊接受历史和文学影响。

My area of research is focused on the late-ninth and early-tenth century English translations of highly influential and complex texts that date to late antiquity. I am particularly interested in theories of translation and models of linguistic self-consciousness that were written in Latin and were available to early English scholars and the kind of influence that they had on the development of an Anglo-Saxon translation culture, in particular on the Alfredian corpus of texts. However, it should be noted that this corpus is by no means a fixed or homogenous body of texts. By drawing on linguistic data, historical evidence and literary approaches, I aim to broaden understanding of the dynamic and complex Anglo-Latin environment which existed in pre-Conquest England. Such an approach complements current emphases on early medieval England as a multilingual and multicultural environment.I also want to engage with recent scholarship that has been carried out in translation studies and in the study of material culture and consider how they might facilitate new ways of approaching the Alfredian texts as well as the relationship between individual translations. This seems like a timely intervention and one that can take advantage of the new and recently published editions of my primary texts (Susan Irvine's and Malcolm Godden's 2009 edition of the 'Old English Boethius' and Godden's 2016 edition of the 'Old English Orosius', titled the 'Old English History of the World'), as well as Leslie Lockett's upcoming edition of the 'Old English Soliloquies' for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series.Whilst my research will focus on the Alfredian translations, I will also draw on a range of other Old English and Anglo-Latin works where appropriate. Such a process will involve engaging with texts not often studied in connection with the late-ninth and early-tenth century vernacular translations, such as Alcuin's treatises, the 'Liber Scintillarum', and Ælfric's 'Grammar' and 'Colloquy'. This broader engagement is especially relevant considering current research priorities because it foregrounds texts whose often numerous manuscript witnesses indicate a broad Anglo-Saxon reception-history and literary influence.