The dragoman renaissance : diplomatic interpreters and the routes of orientalism /
This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethnolinguistic, 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 dictionari...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethnolinguistic, 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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| Item Description: | "This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot." |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 419 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501758492 1501758497 |