TY - BOOK AU - Rothman,E.Natalie TI - The dragoman renaissance: diplomatic interpreters and the routes of orientalism SN - 9781501758492 AV - DR479.E85 R67 2021 U1 - 327.560409/032 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Dragomen KW - Turkey KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Orientalism KW - Europe KW - fast KW - International relations KW - Relations KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Localizing foreignness: forging Istanbul's dragomanate -- Kinshipping: casting nets and spawning dynasties -- Inscribing the self: dragomans' relazioni -- Visualizing a space of encounter -- Disciplining language: dragomans and Oriental philology -- Translating the Ottomans -- Circulating "Turkish literature" -- Dragomans and the routes of orientalism N2 - "This book studies the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating ethno-linguistic, political, and religious relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbors from ca. 1550 to ca. 1730. It considers both their Istanbul-centered social lives, and how the dictionaries, reports, and visual representations they created were central to the production of Europeanist knowledge about the Ottoman world"-- UR - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501758508/the-dragoman-renaissance/?fbclid=IwAR1qul0fG6ALLJ6R32_qYMSys6JKrlo6pfpPD1crL60EJyZx1GMbi1ZoLKc#bookTabs=1 ER -