The inheritance of translation theory, the mystical tradition and the theories of authority and authorship are discussed as a background to the Wycliffite translation of the Bible. The early development of the vernacular from Bede to Aelfric begins the study of the process of Englishing the wealth of medieval translations from the Conquest to Rolle continues it. It takes into account the problems of retrospective assessment and the danger of attempting to impose modern values on pre-conquest and medieval prose. It hopes to set the Englishing of the Bible into a linguistic and literary context as well as a religious and political one.

It offers the idea that the first complete translation of the Bible into English in the 1380's was not a sudden and short-lived political gesture, but the natural progression of a process which began in Anglo-Saxon times, continued through the Middle Ages and culminated in the definitive 1611. This thesis aims to open up a new perspective an the translation of the Bible into the vernacular. This defence of the image is as radical as it is doomed: just a few decades later, science destroyed the analogical conception of vision underlying this hermeneutic theory. It is no longer a didactic substitute: it is a necessary step towards understanding the most arcane truths of the Bible. The image is no longer a mere concession to the weakness of the illiterate, it is addressed to a highly sophisticated public, knowledgeable about architecture and geometry as well as theology. Nevertheless, their commentary is a remarkable example of Counter Reformation endeavours to define a new status for the image. It is true that the exegetical practice of the two Jesuits does not exactly fit their hermeneutical theory. It is through this image that one grasps the allegorical meaning of the text. understood without visualising them with the help of illustrations that are faithful to the reality Ezechiel had in mind. It then focuses on the work’s hermeneutical theory, which claims that Ezechiel’s prophecies cannot be. It first briefly outlines the history of the work, with its obvious political aims (it celebrates the glory of the Spanish King, worthy successor of Solomon). The article focuses on a lengthy commentary on Ezechiel, published in three volumes with a very impressive set of illustrations.

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