On the Move
Mobility and Early Modern Translation
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2026
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-90-04-73179-0 (ISBN)
Description
While the rising prominence of translations has long been recognized as an essential element of early modern intellectual life, this volume shifts the focus from translated texts to the individuals who translated them. Through a series of interlocking case studies, it follows translators from Europe, through the Ottoman Empire, and as far as Mughal India, in the process raising new questions about the possibilities-and the limits-of trans-linguistic dialogue, and about translators' unique role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before.
Contributors include Giancarlo Casale, Alessia Castagnino, Angelo Cattaneo, Tunahan Durmaz, Stefan Hanss, Giovanni Lista, Jose Maria Perez Fernandez, Baki Tezcan, and Ann Thomson.
Contributors include Giancarlo Casale, Alessia Castagnino, Angelo Cattaneo, Tunahan Durmaz, Stefan Hanss, Giovanni Lista, Jose Maria Perez Fernandez, Baki Tezcan, and Ann Thomson.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-73179-0 (9789004731790)
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Giancarlo Casale is an author and translator specialising in the history of the Ottoman empire and its relations with the larger early modern world. He is currently professor of early modern Mediterranean history at the European University Institute in Florence.
Ann Thomson, D. Phil (1979), Oxford, is Emerita Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute. She has published widely on the long Eighteenth Century in Europe, particularly on the 'Natural History of Man(kind)', the circulation of ideas and information, intellectual networks, and translation.
Ann Thomson, D. Phil (1979), Oxford, is Emerita Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute. She has published widely on the long Eighteenth Century in Europe, particularly on the 'Natural History of Man(kind)', the circulation of ideas and information, intellectual networks, and translation.