| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 253 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- Translations into English. |
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Literature. |
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Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
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Translating and interpreting. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
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Book industries and trade. |
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Translations -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History.
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Translations -- Publishing. |
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Translations. |
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Early printed books -- Great Britain -- Bibliography.
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Early printed books. |
| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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| Subject |
Incunabula -- Great Britain -- Bibliography.
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Incunabula. |
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Language and culture -- Great Britain -- History.
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Language and culture. |
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
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Books and reading. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Barker, Sara, editor.
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Hosington, Brenda, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barker, Sara K. Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 9789004241848 |
| ISBN |
9789004242036 (electronic book) |
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9004242031 (electronic book) |
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9789004241848 (hardback) |
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9004241841 (hardback) |
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