Chapter 1 Introduction: Translators, Interpreters, and Cultural Negotiation

Chapter 2 Three Monks and a Philosopher: Religious Men Travelling and Translating in Medieval Serbia

Chapter 3 Patterns of Translation: Contacts and Linguistic Variety in Italian Late Medieval Diplomacy (ca. 1380–1520)

Chapter 4 Becoming a Classic: Benedetto Varchi’s Boezio (1551) and ‘The Language of Florence’

Chapter 5 ‘Leo Africanus’ and His Worlds of Translation

Chapter 6 A Servant of Two Masters: The Translator Michel Angelo Corai as a Tuscan Diplomat (1599–1609)

Chapter 7 Translation and Adaptation in Original Composition: Lodowick Bryskett’s Use of His Sources in A Discourse of Civill Life (1606)

Chapter 9 The Political and Diplomatic Significance of Interpreters/Translators in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Taiwan

Chapter 10 Hegel and the Latin Bhagavadgītā (1823): A Critique of Understanding and Translating the Foreign

Chapter 11 Translating Modern Fiction into Persian: A Snowball Story

Chapter 12 Translating Aboriginal Siberian and Circumpolar Cultures in Russia