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Author : Peter Burke
Release : 2004-09-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe by : Peter Burke
Download or read book Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke. This book was released on 2004-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.
Author : Peter Burke
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
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Book Rating : 278/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe by : Peter Burke
Download or read book Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.
Author : Michael J. Halvorson
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Defining Community in Early Modern Europe by : Michael J. Halvorson
Download or read book Defining Community in Early Modern Europe written by Michael J. Halvorson. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous historical studies use the term "community'" to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples of this varied work in order to draw comparisons and conclusions about the definition of community across early modern Europe. Offering a variety of historical and theoretical approaches, the sixteen original essays in this collection survey major regions of Western Europe, including France, Geneva, the German Lands, Italy and the Spanish Empire, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland. Complementing the regional diversity is a broad spectrum of religious confessions: Roman Catholic communities in France, Italy, and Germany; Reformed churches in France, Geneva, and Scotland; Lutheran communities in Germany; Mennonites in Germany and the Netherlands; English Anglicans; Jews in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands; and Muslim converts returning to Christian England. This volume illuminates the variety of ways in which communities were defined and operated across early modern Europe: as imposed by community leaders or negotiated across society; as defined by belief, behavior, and memory; as marked by rigid boundaries and conflict or by flexibility and change; as shaped by art, ritual, charity, or devotional practices; and as characterized by the contending or overlapping boundaries of family, religion, and politics. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the complex and changeable nature of community in an era more often characterized as a time of stark certainties and inflexibility. As a result, the volume contributes a vital resource to the ongoing efforts of scholars to understand the creation and perpetuation of communities and the significance of community definition for early modern Europeans.
Author : José María Pérez Fernández
Release : 2014-12-29
Genre : Design
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Book Synopsis Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe by : José María Pérez Fernández
Download or read book Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe written by José María Pérez Fernández. This book was released on 2014-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection underscores the role played by translated books in the early modern period. Individual essays aim to highlight the international nature of Renaissance culture and the way in which translators were fundamental agents in the formation of literary canons. This volume introduces readers to a pan-European story while considering various aspects of the book trade, from typesetting and bookselling to editing and censorship. The result is a multifaceted survey of transnational phenomena.
Author : Peter Burke
Release : 2007-03-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe by : Peter Burke
Download or read book Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke. This book was released on 2007-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking 2007 volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language. This book seeks to achieve an understanding of the contribution of translation to the spread of information in early modern Europe. It focuses on non-fiction: the translation of books on religion, history, politics and especially on science, or 'natural philosophy', as it was generally known at this time. The chapters cover a wide range of languages, including Latin, Greek, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the early modern and later periods, to historians of science and of religion, as well as to anyone interested in translation studies.
