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Ideologies of Translation, I

Instead of an Introduction: Medieval Europe Translated Pavlína Rychterová

Technologies of Translation

The Byzantine Imperial Chancery and its Language Policy from Justin II to Leo III
(Sixth-Eighth Centuries): From Latin to Greek
Christian Gastgeber

Translation as Interpretation: Translating Galen’s Polysemous Term Physis into Arabic
Elvira Wakelnig

Between Languages, Genres and Cultures: Diego Collado’s Linguistic Works
Jan Odstrčilík

Politics of Translation

The Latin Talmud and the Extension of Papal Jurisdiction over Jews
Alexander Fidora

»For they did not change their language« (MekhY Pischa 5):
On the Early Medieval Literary Rehebraicisation of Jewish Culture
Constanza Cordoni

Cultures of Translation

The Tibetan Translation of the Indian Buddhist Epistemological Corpus
Pascale Hugon

Translation as Commentary in the Sanskrit-Old Javanese Didactic
and Religious Literature from Java and Bali
Andrea Acri and Thomas M. Hunter

Project Report

An Interim Report on the Editorial and Analytical Work of the AnonymClassic Project
Beatrice Gruendler, Jan J. van Ginkel, Rima Redwan, Khouloud Khalfallah, Isabel Toral, Johannes Stephan, Matthew L. Keegan, Theodore S. Beers, Mahmoud Kozae, Marwa M. Ahmed

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