The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism /
"This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethno-linguistic, political, and religious relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbors from ca. 1550 to ca. 1730. It considers both their Istanbul-centered social lives, and how the di...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary: | "This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethno-linguistic, political, and religious relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbors from ca. 1550 to ca. 1730. It considers both their Istanbul-centered social lives, and how the dictionaries, reports, and visual representations they created were central to the production of Europeanist knowledge about the Ottoman world"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (444 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501758508 |
| Access: | Open Access |