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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hasse, Dag Nikolaus

Titel

PHILOLOGY: Translators’ Programs and Techniques

Ist Teil von

• Success and Suppression, 2016, p.69-134

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The biographies of Arabic authors were the subject of much investigation by Renaissance scholars, but this scholarly activity was greatly surpassed by the many Arabic–Latin and Hebrew–Latin translation efforts, which began in the 1480s.¹ The rise of a new wave of translations in the Renaissance is a remarkable phenomenon, in particular because it cannot be explained as a mere continuation of medieval activities. The medieval Arabic–Latin translation movements, impressive as they were, break off around 1300, after the completion of a number of medical translations in Montpellier and Barcelona. Around 1480, a new wave of translations begins,