Routledge Handbook of Translation History

<p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Translation History </i>presents the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area and serves both as an introduction to carrying out research into translation and interpreting history and as a key point of reference for some of its main theoretical and methodological issues interdisciplinary approaches and research themes.</p><p>The<em> Handbook</em> brings together 30 eminent international scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds offering examples of the most innovative research while representing a wide range of approaches themes and cultural contexts. The <em> Handbook</em> is divided into four sections: the first looks at some key methodological and theoretical approaches; the second examines some of the key research areas that have developed an interdisciplinary dialogue with translation history; the third looks at translation history from the perspective of specific cultural and religious perspectives; and the fourth offers a selection of case studies on some of the key topics to have emerged in translation and interpreting history over the past 20 years.</p><p>This <em>Handbook</em> is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history translation theory and related areas.</p>