Ideas Across Borders: Translating Visions of Authority and Civil Society in Europe c.1600–1840
About this ebook
Translations played a crucial role in the transmission of political ideas across linguistic and cultural borders in early modern Europe. Yet intellectual historians have been slow to adopt the study of translations as an analytical tool for the understanding of such cultural transfers. Recently, a number of different approaches to transnational intellectual history have emerged, allowing historians of early modern Europe to draw on work not just in translation studies, literary studies, conceptual history, the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, but also in the history of print and its significance for cultural transfer. Thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts in translation can place them more accurately in time and space. This book provides a better understanding of the extent to which ideas crossed linguistic and cultural divides, and how they were re-shaped in the process.
Written in an accessible style, this volume is aimed at scholars in cognate disciplines as well as at postgraduate students.
About the author
Gaby Mahlberg is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. Her publications include The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration (2020) and Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century: Dreaming of Another Game (2009).
Thomas Munck is an Emeritus Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Glasgow, UK. He adopts comparative historical perspectives, as in his Seventeenth Century Europe (2005), and in his Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe 1635–1795 (2019).
