Original scientific paper

Hungarian and Croatian Translations of Tripartitum by Werbőczy

István Nyomárkay

Abstract

The paper addresses several issues regarding the Croatian and Hungarian translations of the law book written by István Werbőczy. A brief analysis shows the translators were well-versed in both Latin and their native lan¬guages. It also reveals their shared attempt to render a legal text approac¬hable and comprehensible to the “common man” (“gemeine Männer”) in both theory and practice. A detailed analysis requires an examination of the translations of the Latin sentence structure – highly reduced in places – and of the construction of specific Hungarian and Croatian terminology. These are typologically unrelated languages, yet the translations present shared or very similar linguistic world views.

Keywords

Tripartitum; Decretom; Balázs Veres; Ivan Pergošić; mutual linguistic influence; scientific works in the Reformation

Hrčak ID:

137619

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/137619

Publication date:

31.3.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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