Trust and Proof

Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

• Author(s): Andrea Rizzi,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 328
• ISBN_10: 9004323880
  ISBN_13: 9789004323889
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , History / Europe / Renaissance , Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy , Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications , Social Science / Anthropology / Physical , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / General ,

Description:... Translators’ contribution to the vitality of textual production in the Renaissance is still often vastly underestimated. Drawing on a wide variety of sources published in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, German, English, and Zapotec, this volume brings a global perspective to the history of translators, and the printed book. Together the essays point out the extent to which particular language cultures were liable to shift, overlap, shrink, and expand during one of the most defining periods in the history of print culture. Interdisciplinary in approach, Trust and Proof investigates translators’ role in the diffusion of discourse about languages and ancient knowledge, as well as changing etiquettes of reading and writing.