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Record Nr.

UNINA9910444255403321

Autore

Rothman E. Natalie (Ella Natalie), <1976->

Titolo

The Dragoman Renaissance : Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism / / E. Natalie Rothman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2021

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-5017-5848-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

327.560409/032

Soggetti

Orientalism

International relations

Dragomen

Orientalism - Europe - History - 17th century

Orientalism - Europe - History - 16th century

Dragomen - Turkey - History - 17th century

Dragomen - Turkey - History - 16th century

History

Electronic books.

Turkey

Europe

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Europe Relations Turkey History

Turkey Relations Europe History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Localizing foreignness: forging Istanbul's dragomanate -- Kinshipping: casting nets and spawning dynasties -- Inscribing the self: dragomans' relazioni -- Visualizing a space of encounter -- Disciplining language: dragomans and Oriental philology -- Translating the Ottomans -- Circulating "Turkish literature" -- Dragomans and the routes of orientalism



Sommario/riassunto

"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"--