Dragoman Renaissance
Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
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- Open LibraryOL34700157M
- ISBN-139781501758492
- OCLC Control Number1198988277
- Library of Congress Control Number2020042673
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- LCCDR479.E85R67 2021
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"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"--
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