Ideas Across Borders: Translating Visions of Authority and Civil Society in Europe c.16001840 [Hardcover]

Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 16001840.

1. Introduction: Ideas across Borders??Part 1: Religious and Scholarly Translation??2. From the Islamic world to Rome and Florence: translations and prints across early modern Europe? 3. David Friedrich Megerlin (16981778) and his German Quran??Part?2: Translation Networks and the Dissemination of Texts??4. The tasks of the translators: social networks and the publication of continental European writings during the English Revolution, 16411660? 5. Pierre Des Maizeaux and the (Huguenot) business of translation in the early eighteenth century??Part?3: Delayed Translation??6. Translation before translation: The dissemination of Harrington's republican ideas in French in the eighteenth century? 7. Translations of James Harringtons political works during the French Revolution: Genre, materiality, and intention? 8. Ancient wisdom for troubled times: Late eighteenth-century Dutch translations of the classics? 9. Non-contemporaneous contemporaries: translating the (long) Enlightenment in Reform Era Hungary (1830s1840s)??Part?4: Translation as Cultural Mediation??10. Anglo-Italian cultural relations through the lens of translation: The first Italian editions of William Robertsons?History of Scotland??11. Algernon Sidney in German: The reviewer as an agent of cultural translation??Part?5:?Maps and Images in Translation??12. A Printers View of Hugo Grotius?Mare liberum?(1633),? 13. Transforming the?Carte de Tendre?into?A Voyage to the Isle of Love: The cultural transmission of a map of courtship from Madeleine dl34