Global Medievalism

The  essay highlights the various patriotic and nationalist uses of imagined  versions of the European Middle Ages from the nineteenth through the  twenty-first century, surveying examples from architecture, art,  literature, politics, and religion in Brazil, Britain, France, Germany,  Russia, and the United States.

Through the comparative study of non-Anglophone translations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The
Canterbury Tales,we can achieve the progressive goals of Emily Apter’s “translational transnationalism”
and Edward Said’s “cosmopolitan humanism.” Both translation and humanism were intrinsic to
Chaucer’s initial composition of the Tales, and in turn, both shaped Chaucer’s later reception, often in
ways that did a disservice to his reputation and his verse. In this essay, Candace Barrington argues that
comparative translation provides a means whereby new modes of translation, like Apter’s, can promote
a different version of humanism, like Said’s; she demonstrates this process in a brief philological study of
Nazmi A˘gıl’s Turkish translation of The Squire’s Tale. While we can see the infusion of Turkish values
and perspectives in the new text, we can also see that the Turkish reveals new insights into Chaucer’s
subtle and nuanced use of language.

Caderno de resumos do ST 06: Possibilidades de pesquisa em História entre os séculos V e XV: do Oriente ao Ocidente. Este Simpósio Temático aconteceu entre os dias 01 e 04 de setembro de 2020 no IV Encontro Discente de História da UFRGS e foi realizado em modalidade online.