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This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanß presents a truly fascinating narrative; a microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.
List of contents
A Mediterranean Microhistory: Translation, Self, and Storytelling in the Early Modern Imperial Balkans / The Bridge over the Drina / 1 A Familiar Thesaurus: Interpreting Empires / Klis, Croatia, August 19, 2017, 8am / 2 Translation, Space, and Mobility: The Balkan Travels of Genesino Salvago / On (Dis)Connections / 3 The Interpreter’s Mediterranean Self: Commerce, Espionage, and War / Genesino Salvago’s "I Poem" / 4 The Dragoman, A Would-Be Writer: Visibility, Authorship, and the Self in the Seventeenth-Century Contact Zone / Study of Perspective / Translation, Family, Espionage: Interpreting Early Modern Imperial Interpreters / Jtinerario del Viaggio da Costantinopoli sino à Spalato, e Traù, fatto da me Genesino Saluagho Dragomanno (1618) / Bibliography
About the author
Stefan Hanß is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester and the winner of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. From September 2023, Hanß will also serve as Deputy Director and Scientific Lead of the John Ryland Research Institute. He has published widely on global history, material culture, and Mediterranean studies, more recently with a focus on hair and featherwork. Hanß is the author of two monographs on the Battle of Lepanto and the editor of Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500–1800) (2014), The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500–1800 (2021), Scribal Practice and Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1700 (2022), and In-Between Textiles, 1400–1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters (2023).
Summary
This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanß presents a truly fascinating narrative; a microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.
