Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiators: Mediating and Communicating Power from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation....Pages 1-9
Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia....Pages 10-28
Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380–1520)....Pages 29-47
Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi’s Boezio (1551) and ‘The Language of Florence’....Pages 48-61
‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation....Pages 62-80
A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat (1599–1609)....Pages 81-104
Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett’s Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)....Pages 105-120
Revisiting Malinche: A Study of Her Role as an Interpreter....Pages 121-135
The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan....Pages 136-154
Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgītā (1823): A Critique of Understanding and Translating the Foreign....Pages 155-172
Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story....Pages 173-189
Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia....Pages 190-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-254