H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

MIRMINT · Medieval Irish and Medieval Icelandic Texts in Nineteenth-Century Translation

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-08-01 → 2024-07-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 184 239 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Средновековните ирландски и исландски текстове в преводите от XIX век разкриват кои произведения са избрани за национален канон. Това помага да се разбере как миналото е използвано за изграждане на националната идентичност и стремежа към независимост.

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Резултати накратко

Medieval Irish and Medieval Icelandic Texts in Nineteenth-Century Translation

During the nineteenth century many antiquarians worked on translations of medieval texts, making what was locked away in manuscripts accessible to a wider audience via editions and, especially, translations. With a vast corpus of literature dating from the medieval period, how did they choose what texts to work on and were there any reasons for choosing that particular text? The research project ‘Medieval Irish and Medieval Icelandic Texts in Nineteenth-Century Translation’ (MIRMINT) investigated why certain texts were selected to be part of a national canon in the nineteenth-century; why a national canon was important to society at that time and what it was used to achieve; and why society still promotes the idea of national literatures today. The central research questions of the project were: - What texts were and were not translated? - What are the similarities and differences between the Irish and Icelandic material? - What does the choice of these texts tell us? Addressing this question sheds light on identity politics in the nineteenth century and even today, as we still read translations of medieval stories. Like we still do today, these scholars looked back into the past to ask questions about who we are as a nation of people and what things are important to us. The nineteenth century was a period of political upheaval and crisis; people sought comfort knowing that the inhabitants of the country centuries before had endured bad times before. Yet more was done with the medieval literature. Ireland and Iceland – the subjects of this study – were part of larger empires during this period and many nationalists in both countries sought inspiration from the medieval literature as a sort of guide for an imagined independent future.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The project 'Medieval Irish and Medieval Icelandic Texts in Nineteenth-Century Translation' (MIRMINT) is a comparative study of translations of medieval Irish and Icelandic texts published by antiquarians in Ireland, Iceland, and Denmark in the nineteenth century. This period saw both scholars and cultural and political nationalists in several countries reflect on their respective national medieval pasts and what relevance it could have to the contemporary political situation. This, in turn, led to the adoption of so-called 'Golden Ages' - a point in time which was deemed to embody all of the characteristics which the envisaged national ideal held. Key to the adoption and perpetuation of the golden age were the translations of medieval texts from this designated period which made these works accessible to a larger audience. The project will answer the following three questions: What texts were translated? What does the choice of these texts tell us? What are the links between the texts and cultural nationalism? This will be achieved by compiling a database with a list of publications which will be crossreferenced against another list of medieval texts known to antiquarians in the nineteenth century, and by researching antiquarian correspondence and nationalist periodicals. This study will centre and promote the role of the small nation in the nineteenth-century context of empire, exploring how the past was used to argue for cultural and linguistic distinction, which, it was hoped, would lead to greater political autonomy. It will also investigate how the dominating countries, in this case, Britain and Denmark, also shared an interest in the Irish and Icelandic past, though they had different motivations for engagement with antiquarian research. The research is highly topical at a time when white nationalists associated with the Alt-Right have centred the middle ages to further their arguments, frequently focusing on the imagined Irish and Nordic pasts.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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