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Renaissance cultural crossroads, translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640, edited by S.K. Barker and Brenda M. Hosington

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Renaissance cultural crossroads

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edited by S.K. Barker and Brenda M. Hosington

Library of the written word, Handpress world, 21., 15

translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640

Introduction. -- Part I. Translation and early print. -- 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. -- Part II. Translation, fiction and print. -- 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. -- Part III. Instruction through translation. -- Versifying philosophy : Thomas Blundeville's Plutarch / Robert Cummings. -- War, what is it good for? : sixteenth-century english translations of ancient Roman texts on warfare / Fred Schurink. -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke. -- Part IV. Shaping mind and nation through translation. -- 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