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The Alfonsine school of translators: Translations from Arabic into Castilian produced under the patronage of Alfonso the Wise of Castile (1221–1252–1284)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. P. Harvey
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In the course of this seminar we have learnt, for example from Dr. Latham's paper, how fruitful it is in considering problems of cultural and linguistic contact to focus on one point, even if that point is only the size of the top of a pimple. I am going to do just the opposite, and to cover a very wide area, and I am conscious of the risks which I run in dispersing my attention in this way, but I hope that what I will say will give us the opportunity to go back over a number of themes dealt with in other papers. I am thinking in particular of what Dr. Daniel said, but indeed I might also be thinking of those classical marble columns which we were shewn stuck upside-down in alien façades: striking examples of the completely different meaning which a cultural element can assume when transmitted from one cultural realm to another.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 109 - 117
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1977

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