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

我的研究领域集中在九世纪末和十世纪初的英语翻译的高度影响和复杂的文本，可以追溯到古代晚期。我对翻译理论和语言自我意识模型特别感兴趣，这些理论和模型都是用拉丁语写成的，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，尤其是对阿尔弗雷多文本语料库的影响。然而，应该指出的是，这个语料库绝不是固定的或同质的文本体。通过利用语言学数据、历史证据和文学方法，我的目标是扩大对被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多语言和多元文化环境的强调。我还想参与最近在翻译研究和物质文化研究中开展的学术研究，并考虑它们如何促进接近阿尔弗雷德文本的新方法，以及个别翻译之间的关系。这似乎是一次及时的干预，可以利用我的主要文本的新版本和最近出版的版本（苏珊·欧文和马尔科姆·戈德登的2009版“古英语波伊提乌斯”和戈德登的2016版“古英语奥罗修斯”，标题为“古英语世界史”），以及莱斯利·洛克特即将出版的版本“古英语独白”敦巴顿橡树中世纪图书馆系列。虽然我的研究将集中在阿尔弗雷迪语翻译上，但我也会在适当的地方借鉴一系列其他古英语和盎格鲁-拉丁语作品。这样的过程将涉及到与九世纪末和十世纪初的白话翻译不经常研究的文本，例如Alcuin的论文，“librer Scintillarum”，以及Ælfric的“Grammar”和“Colloquy”。考虑到当前的研究重点，这种更广泛的参与是特别相关的，因为它突出了那些经常有大量手稿见证的文本，这些手稿表明了广泛的盎格鲁-撒克逊人的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.