Rothman, E. Natalie 1976-

The dragoman renaissance : diplomatic interpreters and the routes of orientalism / E. Natalie Rothman. - pages cm

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

"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"--

9781501758492 1501758497

2020042673


1288-1918


Dragomen--History--Turkey--16th century.
Dragomen--History--Turkey--17th century.
Orientalism--History--Europe--16th century.
Orientalism--History--Europe--17th century.
Dragomen
International relations
Orientalism


Turkey--Relations--History.--Europe
Europe--Relations--History.--Turkey
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Europe
Turkey


History

DR479.E85 / R67 2021

327.560409/032