Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1980 - 9/1/1980

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)


Tranlsation of Three Old Provencal Grammars

FAIN: RL-*1045-80

Marianne Shapiro
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To support an annotated translation of two Old Provencal grammars from the 13th century. Old Provencal is the first modern vernacular known to have had a written grammar. The texts demonstrate the tension between "high" and "popular" culture.