Renaissance Cultural Crossroads ：Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640

Publication series ：1

Author： Barker   Sara K.;Hosington   Brenda M.  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789004242036

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004241848

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004241848

Subject： K5 European History

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473–1640

pp.：  3 – 4

Dedication

pp.：  5 – 5

Copyright

pp.：  6 – 6

Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Contributors

pp.：  9 – 12

Acknowledgements

pp.：  13 – 14

List of Figures and Tables

pp.：  15 – 16

Introduction

pp.：  17 – 32

PART ONE: TRANSLATION AND EARLY PRINT

pp.：  33 – 92

The Role of Translations and Translators in the Production of English Incunabula

pp.：  35 – 52

Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Translation, Re-Translation and History

pp.：  53 – 66

Reading Juan de Flores’s Grisel y Mirabella in Early Modern England

pp.：  67 – 92

PART TWO: TRANSLATION, FICTION AND PRINT

pp.：  93 – 132

Learning Style from the Spaniards in Sixteenth-Century England

pp.：  95 – 110

Print, Paratext, and a Seventeenth Century Sammelband: Boccaccio’s Ninfale Fiesolano in English Translation

pp.：  111 – 132

PART THREE: INSTRUCTION THROUGH TRANSLATION

pp.：  133 – 188

Versifying Philosophy: Thomas Blundeville’s Plutarch

pp.：  135 – 152

War, What is it good for? Sixteenth-Century English Translations of Ancient Roman Texts on Warfare

pp.：  153 – 170

Cato in England: Translating Latin Sayings for Moral and Linguistic Instruction

pp.：  171 – 188

PART FOUR: SHAPING MIND AND NATION THROUGH TRANSLATION

pp.：  189 – 276

John Hester’s Translations of Leonardo Fioravanti: The Literary Career of a London Distiller

pp.：  191 – 216

“For the Common Good and for the National Interest:” Paratexts in English Translations of Navigational Works

pp.：  217 – 240

Henry Hexham (c.1585–1650), English Soldier, Author, Translator, Lexicographer, and Cultural Mediator in the Low Countries

pp.：  241 – 258

“Newes Lately Come”: European News Books in English Translation

pp.：  259 – 276

Index

pp.：  277 – 285