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Renaissance Cultural Crossroads : Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640 / edited by S.K. Barker and Brenda M. Hosington.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; vol. 21. The handpress world ; vol. 15.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004242036
  • 9004242031
  • 1299104797
  • 9781299104792
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Renaissance Cultural Crossroads.DDC classification:
  • 418/.020941 23
LOC classification:
  • PR131
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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.

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