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==History of the concept== Translatio studii is a celebrated topos in medieval literature, m. n. a. i. t. p. t. C. d. T. C., & There, c. c. 1. (1170). (untitled).

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    This sourceAccording to this notion, the first center of learning was Eden, followed by Jerusalem, and Babylon. From there, the light of learning moved westward to Athens, and then west to Rome. After Rome, learning moved west to Paris. From there, enlightenment purportedly moved west to London, though other nations laid claim to the mantle, most notably Russia, which would involve a retrograde motion and rupture in the westerly direction. The metaphor of translatio studii went out of fashion in the 18th century, but such English Renaissance authors as George Herbert were already predicting that learning would move next to America. A pessimistic corollary metaphor is the translatio stultitiae ["transfer of stupidity"]. As learning moves west, as the earth turns and light falls ever westward, so night follows and claims the places learning has departed from. The metaphor of the translatio stultitiae informs Alexander Pope's Dunciad, and particularly book IV of the Greater Dunciad of 1741, which opens with the nihilistic invocation: Yet, yet a moment, one dim Ray of Light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!" (B IV 1-2) [...] Suspend a while your Force inertly strong, Then take at once the Poet, and the Song. (ibid. 7-8) ==Etymology== While the term translatio studii literally means in English the translation of studies, there is an implication within the concept that the transmission of learning also carried with it cultural ideals and information. That being said, there is a lot more to translatio studii than the simple movement of common concepts from the Mediterranean westward. According to Karlheinz Stierle, English is what we might consider the current language of this sort of transmission, but "what English is today...Latin was in the first centuries after Christ." Stierle, Karlheinz. "Translatio Studii and Renaissance: From Vertical to Horizontal Translation." The Translatability of Cultures: Figures of the Space Between. Budick, Sanford and Iser, Wolfgang. Stanford UP, 1996. 56. Web.

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