Polyglot Texts and Translations in Early Modern Europe (Approaches to Translation Studies)

Izquierdo, Adrian (EDT)

Brill（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 285 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004695559
• DDC分類 418.02094

Full Description

Multilingualism and translation shaped the oral and textual production of many early modern denizens and intellectuals. This book explores many of the polyglot and translational practices and strategies deployed by cities, authors, women, scientists, playwrights, Jesuits, missionaries, and travelers across Europe and beyond in the early modern period.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Early Modern Polyglotism and Translation: an Overview

Part 1: Latin and the Vernaculars

1 Norwich, an English Quadrilingual City in the Early Modern Period

 Christopher Joby

2 James Howell, a Polyglot among the Erudite; or, Languages Like Laws, Coins, and Rivers

 Adrián Izquierdo

3 Galileo Galilei and Simon Stevin: Publishing in Vernacular or in Latin?

 Filip A.A. Buyse

Part 2: Spanish and Its Many Others

4 Polyglotism in Francisca de Passier's Translation: Trilingual Paratexts and Bilingual Parallel Texts

 Noelia Pousada-Lobeira

5 Emotional Sounds: Arabic Words in Castilian Aljamiado Texts

 Álvaro Garrote Pascual

6 Dance as Discourse: Imperialism and Linguistic Diversity in the Spanish Interlude Las lenguas (The Languages)

 Erin A. Cowling and Tania De Miguel Magro

Part 3: Europe, the Fringes and the Wide World

7 Early Modern Global Translatability: the Missions Connected to the Portuguese Empire and World History Periodization

 Angelo Cattaneo

8 Representing Interpreters in Theater and History in Seventeenth-Century New France

 Weiao Xing

9 Polyglot Mediations and Sites of Untranslatability in Juan de Tovar's Manuscript (c.1586)

 Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo

10 Slavic Words in Arabographic Discourse. A Late Medieval Serbian Law and Its Early Modern Ottoman Users

 Marijana Mišević