This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern
period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation …

Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the
book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the …

English tradition as Erasmian learned pietism, of which Thomas Paynell, an Austin friar and
translator, is emblematic: according to McConica, Paynell's career and writings provide 'a …

The French diplomat and humanist scholar Hubert Languet was quick to pour scorn on the
patriotic Welshman's" judgments which seem to lack common sense," especially in his …

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text
designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed …

Neuertheless if it so fortune that men find not the speech of this translation so flowing, as
they haue found some other of mine, that are abroad in mens hands: I beseech the readers …

The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London's
publishers wholly dominated the production of books, and with Oxford and Cambridge the …

Among the wealth of myths found in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the tale of Narcissus has
particularly attracted the attention of readers over the centuries. Early modern England was …

Although there has been an increasing interest in the study of Renaissance translations and
the early world of print, the history of navigation and exploration has not been the subject of …

The article explores the sources from which Richard Hakluyt assembled his Divers Voyages
(1582) and the circumstances of the book's publication. It then places Hakluyt's work in the …