the English Department and the Department of Greek and Latin.

In prolongation of the active debate about medieval translation practices that we are observing today, the symposium created a forum for discussion of the ways how Europe translated and adapted texts in the Middle Ages. Among other things, the lectures deal with the ´fidus interpres´ problem, i.e. the degree of fidelity of the target texts in relation to their models, and they put forward especially literary texts in a broad sense.