1st Edition
Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13
By Frances E. Dolan
Copyright 2000
784 Pages
by
Routledge
784 Pages
by
Routledge
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At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith, was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did Cary, as ’a Catholique, and a woman’ was a risky assertion of political opposition. One of Cary’s daughters asserts that Cary’s translation of Cardinal Du Perron’s Reply was largely motivated by a desire... Read more
Contents: Introductory note; Elizabeth Cary, trans.: The Reply of the most illustrious Cardinall of Perron; An image of Du Perron and two holograph poems by Cary tipped into the copy of Reply at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Alexia Grey, trans.: The Rule of the Most Blissed Father Saint Benedict; Statutes. Compyled For the Better Observation of the Holy Rule of the Most Glorious Father and Patriarch S. Benedict.
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Frances E. Dolan
