Cultural Translation in Early Mode Europe
by: Peter Burke (Editor), R. Po-chia Hsia (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (29 Mar. 2007)
Language: English
Print length: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0521862086
ISBN-13: 9780521862080
Book Description
This groundbreaking 2007 volume gathers an inteational 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 mode 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 mode and later periods, to historians of science and of religion, as well as to anyone interested in translation studies.
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