Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

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Classen, Albrecht. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

Classen, A. (2022). Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

Classen, A. 2022. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

Classen, Albrecht. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

Classen A. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

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Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Volume 26 in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776874

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Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religions, and cultures. Beyond that, as the contributors to this volume underscore, people have always endeavored to reach out to their community members, that is, to build community, to learn from each other, and to teach. Hence, this volume explores the meaning of communication, translation, and community building based on the medium of language. While all these aspects have already been discussed in many different venues, the contributors endeavor to explore a host of heretofore less considered historical, religious, literary, political, and linguistic sources. While the dominant focus tends to rest on conflicts, hostility, and animosity in the pre-modern age, here the emphasis rests on communication with its myriad of challenges and potentials for establishing a community.

As the various studies illustrate, a close reading of communicative issues opens profound perspectives regarding human relationships and hence the social context. This understanding invites intensive collaboration between medical historians, literary scholars, translation experts, and specialists on religious conflicts and discourses. We also learn how much language carries tremendous cultural and social meaning and determines in a most sensitive manner the interactions among people in a communicative and community-based fashion.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, USA.

Topics

16th-17th Century
8th-15th Century
Cultural Studies
German Literature
Literary Studies
Religion
Society
Topics in Cultural Studies
Topics in Literary Studies

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: An Essay on Language, Culture, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on and Approaches to Communication, Translation, and Community Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ways of Communication and Mis/communication in Abū Tammām’s “Ode on the Conquest of Amorium” (838 C.E.) Asmaa Ahmed Youssef Moawad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
(Non)-Imaginary Ideal Communities in the Pre-Modern World: A Reading in the Utopian Works of al-Fārābi’, Ibn Khaldūn, Christine de Pizan, and Thomas More Doaa Omran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
A Jewish Moneylender, Miscommunication, and a Lie: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagro no. 23 Connie L. Scarborough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Words, Signs, Meanings: William Langland’s Piers Plowman as a Window on Linguistic Chaos Daniel F. Pigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
The Chaucerian Translator Jane Beal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Entertainment, Laughter, and Reflections as a Training Ground for Communication in Public and Private: The Case of Heinrich Kaufringer, ca. 1400 Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
…written in my own Jewish hand Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Demonic Operators: Forbidden Relations in Medieval Communication Christa Agnes Tuczay and Thomas Ballhausen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Paroemiac Expressions: A Touch of Color in the Ambassadors’ Diplomatic Correspondence in the Fifteenth Century Chiara Melchionno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Communication and Translation in Early Modern Basque Society. The Role Played by the Public Notaries Nere Jone Intxaustegi Jauregi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Preventing Miscommunication: Early Modern German Surgeons as Specialized Translators Chiara Benati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Reputation and Authority in the Physicians’ Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech-Language Sources of the Early Modern Period David Tomíček Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
The Physicians’ Community in Pre-Thirty Years’ War Bohemia Filip Hrbek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
A Bond of True Love: Performing Courtship and Betrothal in Gower’s Cinkante balades and Spenser’s Amoretti, in Light of Christine de Pizan’s Cent balades Linda Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Noble Friendship in Relation to the Community: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice John M Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Deconstructing the (Mis)Interpretation of Paratextual Elements in Ross’s English Translation of the Qur’ān, The Alcoran of Mahomet (1649) Najlaa Aldeeb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
Community and the Others: Unveiling Boundaries in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Amany El-Sawy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Biographies of the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Medievalists, Early Modernists, literary and cultural studies scholars, sociologists
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 632
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Middle Ages; Early Modern times; literature; communication; community; translation

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