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Title Ideas across borders : translating visions of authority and civil society in Europe c.1600-1840 / edited by Gaby Mahlberg and Thomas Munck
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Ideas across Borders / Gaby Mahlberg and Thomas Munck -- From the Islamic world to Rome and Florence: translations and prints across early modern Europe / Luisa Simonutti -- David Friedrich Megerlin (1698-1778) and his German Qur'an / Asaph Ben-Tov -- The tasks of the translators: social networks and the publication of continental European writings during the English Revolution, 1641-1660 / Ariel Hessayon -- Pierre Des Maizeaux and the (Huguenot) business of translation in the early eighteenth century / Ann Thomson -- Translation before translation: The dissemination of Harrington's republican ideas in French in the eighteenth century / Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq -- Translations of James Harrington's political works during the French Revolution: genre, materiality, and intention / Rachel Hammersley -- Ancient wisdom for troubled times: late eighteenth-century Dutch translations of the classics / Wyger R.E. Velema -- Non-contemporaneous contemporaries: translating the (long) Enlightenment in Reform Era Hungary (1830s-1840s) / László Kontler -- Anglo-Italian cultural relations 'through the lens of translation': The first Italian editions of William Robertson's History of Scotland / Alessia Castagnino -- Algernon Sidney in German: the reviewer as an agent of cultural translation / Gaby Mahlberg -- A Printer's View of Hugo Grotius' Mare liberum (1633) / Matthew Cleary, Edward Jones Corredera, Pablo Nicolas Dufour, Lara Muschel, Jonathan, Nathan, Emanuele Salerno and Mark Somos -- Transforming the Carte de Tendre into A Voyage to the Isle of Love: the cultural transmission of a map of courtship from Madeleine de Scudéry's French salons to Aphra Behn's English readers / Amelia Mills -- The manifold strategies of seventeenth-century translators: the case of Du Verdus as translator of Thomas Hobbes / Luc Borot -- Untranslatable, unsellable, unreadable?: obstacles, delays and failures in cultural translation in print, 1640-1800 / Thomas Munck
Summary "Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 1600-1840. Translations played a crucial role in the transmission of political ideas across linguistic and cultural borders in early modern Europe. Yet intellectual historians have been slow to adopt the study of translations as an analytical tool for the understanding of such cultural transfers. Recently, a number of different approaches to transnational intellectual history have emerged, allowing historians of early modern Europe to draw on work not just in translation studies, literary studies, conceptual history, the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, but also in the history of print and its significance for cultural transfer. Thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts in translation can place them more accurately in time and space. This book provides a better understanding of the extent to which ideas crossed linguistic and cultural divides, and how they were re-shaped in the process. Written in an accessible style, this volume is aimed at scholars in cognate disciplines as well as at postgraduate students"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2024)
Subject Culture diffusion -- Europe -- History
Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Language and culture -- Europe -- History
Translating and interpreting -- Europe -- History
Political science -- Europe -- History
Civilization, Western -- Historiography
Culture diffusion.
cultural diffusion.
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Europe -- Intellectual life -- Historiography
Form Electronic book
Author Mahlberg, Gaby, editor, author
Munck, Thomas, editor, author
LC no. 2024004020
ISBN 100385429X
9781003321781
100332178X
9781003854289
1003854281
9781003854296