ISBN:
9780521862080
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 252 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
Digitally print. version
DDC:
418.0209409031
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1600
;
Geschichte 1400-1800
;
Translating and interpreting / Europe / History / 16th century
;
Language and culture / Europe
;
Intercultural communication / Europe
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Geschichte
;
Interkulturelle Kommunikation
;
Wissenschaft
;
Übersetzung
;
Fachliteratur
;
Sprache
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Kulturvermittlung
;
Nichtfiktionale Prosa
;
Rezeption
;
Europa
;
Europa
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Übersetzung
;
Nichtfiktionale Prosa
;
Fachliteratur
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Geschichte 1400-1800
;
Europa
;
Sprache
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Übersetzung
;
Geschichte 1400-1800
;
Europa
;
Wissenschaft
;
Rezeption
;
Übersetzung
;
Geschichte 1400-1800
;
Europa
;
Kulturvermittlung
;
Übersetzung
;
Geschichte 1400-1800
Abstract:
"Presents the practice of translation as part of cultural history ... This book seeks to achieve an understanding of the contribution of translation to the spread of information in early modern Europe. It focuses on non-fiction: the translation of books on religion, history, politics and especially on science"--From publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Pt. I. Translation and language -- 1. Cultures of translation in early modern Europe / Peter Burke -- 2. The Catholic mission and translations in China, 1583-1700 / R. Po-chia Hsia -- 3. Language as a means of transfer of cultural values / Eva Kowalská -- 4. Translations into Latin in early modern Europe / Peter Burke -- Pt. II. Translation and culture -- 5. Early modern Catholic piety in translation / Carlos M.N. Eire -- 6. The translation of political theory in early modern Europe / Geoffrey P. Baldwin -- 7. Translating histories / Peter Burke -- 8. 'The spectator,' or the metamorphoses of the periodical : a study in cultural translation / Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke -- Pt. III. Translation and science -- 9. The role of translations in European scientific exchanges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Isabelle Pantin -- 10. Scientific exchanges between Hellenism and Europe : translations into Greek, 1400-1700 / Efthymios Nicolaïdis -- 11. Ottoman encounters with European science : sixteenth- and seventeenth-century translations into Turkish / Feza Günergun -- 12. Translations of scientific literature in Russia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century / S.S. Demidov
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