Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe

by Edited by Peter Burke , R. Po-chia Hsia

• ISBN13: 9780521111713
• ISBN10: 0521111714
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This groundbreaking volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language. 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, or 'natural philosophy', as it was generally known at this time. The chapters cover a wide range of languages, including Latin, Greek, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the early modern and later periods, to historians of science and of religion, as well as to anyone interested in translation studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Translation and Language

Cultures of translation in Early Modern Europe

The Catholic Mission and translations in China, 1583-1700

Language as a means of transfer of cultural values

Translations into Latin in Early Modern Europe

Translation and Culture

Early Modern Catholic piety in translation

The translation of political theory in Early Modern Europe

Translating histories

The Spectator or the metamorphosis of the periodical: a study in cultural translation

Translation and Science

The role of translations in European scientific exchanges in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Scientific exchanges between Hellenism and Europe: translations into Greek, 1400-1700

Ottoman encounters with European science: sixteenth- and seventeenth- century translations into Turkish

Translations of scientific literature in Russia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century

Bibliography

Index

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