It is in the Middle Ages that translation first becomes a self-conscious process; and translation is at the heart of medieval culture. But just as no medievalist can escape involvement in Translation Studies, no student of Translation Studies should be able to ignore the medieval contribution to the subject ... While the study of translation may be a focus for the study of power relations and the rest, it is worth remembering many translators love what they translate. All the contributors here are sensitive to the wider issues their work might imply, and what is striking in the best of them is the sympathy with which they approach texts that were after all concerned as something other than academic exercises. Translation and Literature, Vol. 4