Editing Translatio studii (section)

==''Translatio imperii''==

''[[Translatio imperii]]'' often served as a precedent or coordinate to ''translatio studii''.  A transferral of rule assisted a transferral of culture, and vice versa: "The transferal of power also conveys the phoenix-like reestablishment of culture - as fictionalized in and transmitted by literature - which establishes each new imperial power as the new stronghold of the culturally elite."<ref>Gertz, Sunhee Kim. "Translatio studii et imperii: Sir Gawain as literary critic." Semiotica, Volume 63, Issue 1-2. (2009): 185-204. Print.</ref>

As it is concerned with the progress of learning, ''translatio studii'' provides an overview of intellectual heritage.  Although it may be considered from various angles (e.g., history, linguistics, and literature) the concept of ''translatio studii'' is fundamentally concerned with texts.  "Reading, translating, commenting, interpreting, rewriting — all are common intertextual activities of the ''translatio studii''."<ref>Carron, Jean-Claude. "Imitation and Intertextuality in the Renaissance." New Literary History, Volume 19, No. 3. (1988): 565-579. Print.</ref>

''Translatio studii'' is based on the assumption that human learning and the potential for human learning originated in [[Greece]] from whence it spread westward to [[Rome]] and then [[France]].<ref>Rothstein, Marian. "Etymology, Genealogy, and the Immutability of Origins." Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 43, No.2. (1990): 332-347. Print.</ref>

[[Chrétien de Troyes]], a French poet of the late 12th century, writes of ''translatio studii'' in the opening of [[Cligès]]:<ref>Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. "Princeton University Press." Princeton, New Jersey. 1990. Print.</ref>

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|<poem>
Par les livres que nous avons
Les fez des anciiens savons
Et del siecle qui fu jadis.
Ce nos ont nostre livre apris,
Que Grece ot de chevalerie
Le premier los et de clergie.
Puis vint chevalerie a Rome
Et de la clergie la some,
Qui or est en France venue.
Deus doint qu'ele i soit retenue
Et que li leus li abelisse
Tant que ja mes de France n'isse.
</poem>
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Through the books which we have, 
we know the deeds of the ancients 
and of times long passed. 
Our books have taught us that 
Greece had the first fame 
of chivalry and learning.  
Then came chivalry to Rome, 
and the sum of learning, 
which now is come to France.  
God grant that it remain there, 
and that it find the place so pleasant 
that it will never depart from France.
</poem>
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