David Diop: Sur les premiers pas de l’ethnographie au siècle des Lumières / Erste Schritte der Ethnographie im Zeitalter der Aufklärung moderiert und übersetzt von Susanne Greilich und Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Dr. Cecilia Sideri (Warwick): The Vernacular Reception of Greek Texts in 15th Century Florence: Case Studies. [read more…]
PD Dr. Markus Hafner (Graz): Quomodo lugendum sit–Lukians satirische Trauerdidaktik neu betrachtet. [read more…]
Álvaro Bragança: Comenius: Die sichtbare Welt (1658). Eine Begleitstudie zur kommentierten Übersetzung ins Portugiesische.
The significance of translations of literary and non-literary source texts from the early as well as neighbouring vernaculars for Early Modern writing cultures can hardly be overestimated. On the strength of contemporary imitation poetics, translation practices exerted a far-reaching influence on various literary-historical subdomains, for example the emergence and development of genres. Yet in view of the ubiquity of translational text production in the Early Modern era, it appears all the more astounding that contemporary comments and reflections on translating are rather hard to come by. [read more…]
“Women have always written and translated. Whether or not they published their works (anonymously, under a pseudonym, or under their real name), had them privately circulated, or kept them under lock and key depended on historical contexts, social framework conditions, and their own individual situations. [read more…]
Enrica Fantino and Philip Schmitz cordially invite you to the opening of the “Lukian-Colloquium” in the summer semester of 2024. [read more…]
The workshop will focus on the translation of gender roles and the construction of transcultural gender concepts related to local concepts and practices, in the Christian missionary context in the early modern period. [read more…]
In the context of the various Early Modern evangelizing endeavours within and outside of Europe, which aimed to propagate (competing) varieties of Christianity for religious or power-political reasons, catechisms played an important role. [read more…]