The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism / / E. Natalie Rothman.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca [New York] : : Cornell University Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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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| ISBN: | 1501758489 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | E. Natalie Rothman. |