Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy [Hardcover]

Introduction: Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy??Part?1: Translation in Peace Negotiations??1. Translation and Papal Peace Mediation at the Congresses of M?nster and Nijmegen? 2. Interpreters and Their Multiple Roles during the Carlowitz Peace Congress (16981699)? 3. Diplomacy, Languages, and the European Balance: Negotiations at the Congress of Soissons (17281729)??Part?2: Diplomatic Contacts between Christian and Non-Christian Countries??4. Can I Have Your Word?: Foreign Terms in Seventeenth-Century Treaties of the Dutch East India Company? 5. I have no one who can translate and understand these letters: Diplomatic Communication Challenges in Ukraines Relations with the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century? 6. Challenges and Innovations in Diplomatic Translation: The Russian Mission in the Ottoman Empire (Late Seventeenth  Early Eighteenth Centuries)??Part?3: Policies, Cultures and Institutions??7. Translating Diplomacy: The Role of Translators in the Ambassadorial Chancery in Seventeenth-Century Russia? 8. From Apprenticeship to Expertise: Translator Training in Russia (First Half of the Eighteenth Century)? 9. Diplomatic Affairs, Translation Processes and Political Decision-Making at the Eighteenth-Century Swedish Diet? 10. Translation and Professionalisation: The Case of the French Secretariat of State for Foreign Affairs in the Eighteenth Century??Part?4: Family and Individual Strategies??11. The Business of Translation: The Graci?ns and the Monopoly of Diplomatic Translation Services at the Spanish Court? 12. Between Diplomacy and Literature: Pavel Levashevs Translations, Career Strategies, and the Development of Russian Diplomatic Language

This book highlights the crucial contributions of translators in shaping early modern diplomacy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the grol3u