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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation
"Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women translators has often focused on early modern England; the example of early modern England has been taken as the norm for the rest of the continent and has shaped research on gender and translation more generally. This book brings a new European perspective to the field by introducing the case of Germany. It draws attention to forty women who can be identified as translators in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany and shows ...
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Trust and Proof
Translators’ contribution to the vitality of textual production in the Renaissance is still often vastly underestimated. Drawing on a wide variety of sources published in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, German, English, and Zapotec, this volume brings a global perspective to the history of translators, and the printed book. Together the essays point out the extent to which particular language cultures were liable to shift, overlap, shrink, and expand during one of the most defining periods in the history of print culture. Interdisciplinary in approach, Trust and Proof investigates translators’ role in the diffusion of discourse about languages and ancient knowledge, as well as changing etiquettes of reading and writing.
Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.
Anticlericalism
In forty-one essays eminent historians of culture, religion, and social history redefine and redirect the debate regarding the scope and impact of European anticlericalism during the period 1300-1700. The meaning of reform and resentment is here clearly articulated.
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Conflicting Visions of Reform
Cultural and textual analysis of 300 German propaganda pamphlets reveals lay people responding to the Protestant Reformation. They urge changes based on the perceptions and aspirations of their social class, supporting their proposals by personal interpretations of the Bible.
The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age, 1200-1600
This book is the history of an imaginary people — the Red Jews — in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeated and embroidered on an antisemitic tale concerning an epochal threat to Christianity, the Red Jews. This term, which expresses a medieval conflation of three separate traditions (the biblical destroyers Gog and Magog, the 'unclean peoples' enclosed by Alexander, and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel), is a hostile designation of wickedness. The Red Jews played a major role in late medieval popular exegesis and literature, and appeared in a hitherto-unnoticed series of sixteenth-century pamphlets, in which they functioned as the medieval 'spectacles' through which contemporaries viewed such events as Turkish advances in the Near and Middle East. The Red Jews disappear from the sources after 1600, and consequently never found their way into historical scholarship.
Volksschauspiele
Volksschauspiele waren seit Jahrzehnten kein Thema der Literatur- und Theaterwissenschaft mehr. Anders auch als die ältere Volksstück- und Volksschauspielforschung des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt dieses Buch sehr unterschiedliche Verständnisweisen von Volksschauspiel und Volksstück synoptisch in den Blick: Bauernstücke und Passionsspiele, patriotisches Nationaltheater und militärisches Propagandastück des späten 18. Jahrhunderts, Legendenspiel, Ritterspektakel und Brauchtumsspiel des 19. Jahrhunderts, aber auch Massenfestspiel, Thingspiel, Agit-Prop- und Arbeitertheater, Antivolksstück und soziales Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch rekonstruiert die Genese des Volksschauspiels vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert und verortet die unterschiedlichen Formationen in ihren jeweiligen literarischen und theatergeschichtlichen Kontexten. Es gibt Antwort auf die Fragen, ob und inwiefern Volksschauspiel als Idee, Dramengattung oder Behauptung gelten kann. Kommentierte Textbeispiele, die von Johann Gottfried Herder bis Elfriede Jelinek reichen, begleiten die literaturwissenschaftliche und dramenkundliche Studie.
