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Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiators

Mediating and Communicating Power from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era

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Editors:
  1. Federico M. Federici

    1. University College London, UK

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  2. Dario Tessicini

    1. Durham University, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation

    • Dario Tessicini
    Pages 1-9

  3. Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia

    • Tatjana Đurin
    Pages 10-28

  4. Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380–1520)

    • Isabella Lazzarini
    Pages 29-47

  5. Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi’s Boezio (1551) and ‘The Language of Florence’

    • Dario Brancato
    Pages 48-61

  6. ‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation

    • Natalie Zemon Davis
    Pages 62-80

  7. A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat (1599–1609)

    • Federico M. Federici
    Pages 81-104

  8. Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett’s Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)

    • Sergio Portelli
    Pages 105-120

  9. Revisiting Malinche: A Study of Her Role as an Interpreter

    • María Laura Spoturno
    Pages 121-135

  10. The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan

    • Pin-Ling Chang
    Pages 136-154

  11. Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgītā (1823): A Critique of Understanding and Translating the Foreign

    • Madhuvanti Chintamani Karyekar
    Pages 155-172

  12. Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story

    • Mohammad Emami
    Pages 173-189

  13. Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia

    • Veronica Razumovskaya
    Pages 190-212

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 213-254
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About this book

How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power? The book investigates the intellectual, social and professional identity of translators and interpreters across different time periods and locations when their role involves a negotiation with political powers and cultural authorities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    Federico M. Federici

  • Durham University, UK

    Dario Tessicini

About the editors

Tatjiana Djurin, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Isabella Lazzarini, University of Molise, Italy Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto, Canada Dario Brancato, University of Concordia, Canada María Laura Spoturno, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina Sergio Portelli, University of Malta Pin-ling Chang, Independent Scholar Madhuvanti Chintamani Karyekar, Indiana University, USA Mohammad Emami, University of St Andrews, UK Veronika Razumovskaia, Siberian Federal University, Russia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiators

  • Book Subtitle: Mediating and Communicating Power from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era

  • Editors: Federico M. Federici, Dario Tessicini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400048

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40003-1Published: 05 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48604-5Published: 01 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40004-8Published: 20 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 254

  • Topics: Translation, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies, Communication Studies

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