Translating Devotional Texts for Medieval Religious Women

我的项目将展示《西翁的果园》（The orchard of Syon）是如何被改编成中世纪英语的，翻译自锡耶纳的凯瑟琳（Catherine of Siena） 14世纪的拉丁神秘论文《对话》（Il Dialogo），这本书最初是为男女混合的观众写的，后来被改编成迎合女性观众——西翁修道院的修女们的需求。我将演示《果园》的译者如何修改原著的内容、组织和语言，并创建一个性别化的读者。对《果园》的研究将有助于我们理解女性观众如何塑造中世纪晚期英格兰中世纪英语虔诚文学的创作。

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.