How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power? The book investigates the intellectual, social and professional identity of translators and interpreters across different time periods and locations when their role involves a negotiation with political powers and cultural authorities.

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation
1 Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia
2 Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380–1520)
3 Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi’s Boezio (1551) and ‘The Language of Florence’
4 ‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation
5 A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat (1599–1609)
6 Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett’s Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)
7 Revisiting Malinche: A Study of Her Role as an Interpreter121
8 The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan136
9 Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgītā (1823): A Critique of Understanding and Translating the Foreign
10 Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story
11 Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia
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