| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 253 pages) |
| Series |
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 21. The handpress world ; vol. 15 |
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Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; vol. 21. The handpress world ; vol. 15
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| Contents |
The role of translations and translators in the production of English incunabula / Brenda M. Hosington -- Lydgate's Fall of princes : translation, re-translation and history / A.S.G. Edwards -- Reading Juan de Flores's Grisel y Mirabella in early modern England / Joyce Boro -- Learning style from the Spaniards in sixteenth-century England / Barry Taylor -- Print, paratext, and a seventeenth century sammelband : Boccaccio's Ninfale Fiesolano in English translation / Guyda Armstrong -- Versifying philosophy : Thomas Blundeville's Plutarch / Robert Cummings -- War, what is it good for? : sixteenth-century english translations of the -- Classics / Fred Schurink -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke -- John Hester's translations of Leonardo Fioravanti : the literary career of a London distiller / Isabelle Pantin -- 'For the common good and for the national interest' : paratexts in English translations of navigational works / Susanna De Schepper -- Henry Hexham (c.1585-1650), English soldier, author, translator, lexicographer, and cultural mediator in the Low Countries / Paul Hoftijzer -- 'Newes lately come' : European news books in English translation / S.K. Barker |
| Summary |
The importance of 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads' lies in its appreciation and promotion of the multi-faceted reach of translation in Britain from the arrival of printing until the outbreak of the civil war, highlighting the impressive number and wide variety of works translated |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013) |
| Subject |
Literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
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Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History
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Translations -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History
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Early printed books -- Great Britain -- Bibliography
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Incunabula -- Great Britain -- Bibliography
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Language and culture -- Great Britain -- History
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Translating & Interpreting.
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Book industries and trade
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Books and reading
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Early printed books
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Incunabula
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Language and culture
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Literature -- Translations into English
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Translating and interpreting
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Translations -- Publishing
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barker, Sara, editor
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Hosington, Brenda, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004242036 |
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9004242031 |
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1299104797 |
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9781299104792 |
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