Renaissance Cultural Crossroads

Sara K. Barker, Ph.D. University of St Andrews, was postdoctoral fellow on the 'French Vernacular Book' and 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads' projects, taught at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter, and has published on Reformation history, including a monograph, Protestantism, Poetry and Protest. Brenda M. Hosington, Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, Professeure associée, Université de Montréal and Research Associate, University of Warwick, has published on medieval and Renaissance translation, women translators, Neo-Latin women writers, and was Principal Investigator for the 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads' project.Contributors are Guyda Armstrong, Sara K. Barker, Joyce Boro, Robert Cummings, Susanna De Schepper, A.S.G. Edwards, Brenda M. Hosington, Paul Hoftijzer, Isabelle Pantin, Fred Schurink, Barry Taylor and Demmy Verbeke.

‘’I very much enjoyed reading Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, learned a great deal from it, and look forward to drawing on it in my own research. The essays contained in it are of consistently high quality and it is recommended reading for anyone interested in translation and intercultural traffic during the early modern era.’’Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, University of Leiden. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 4 (2014) p. 302.“Excellent volume […] a major contribution to scholarship on the early modern period […]. I wish I had been able to draw more on these insightful, well-researched essays in my own in-press work [...]. They reveal the fascinating range of concerns that preoccupied translators and printers in Renaissance England: matters intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, erotic, political, and practical; no less than the whole of life.” Anne Coldiron, Florida State University. In: Publishing History, Vol. 74 (2014), pp. 97-102.

• Contributors AcknowledgementsList of Figures and Tables Introduction PART ONE: TRANSLATION AND EARLY PRINTThe Role of Translations and Translators in the Production of English Incunabula Brenda M. HosingtonLydgate’s Fall of Princes: Translation, Re-Translation and History A.S.G. EdwardsReading Juan de Flores’s Grisel y Mirabella in Early Modern England Joyce BoroPART TWO: TRANSLATION, FICTION AND PRINTLearning Style from the Spaniards in Sixteenth-Century England Barry TaylorPrint, Paratext, and a Seventeenth Century Sammelband: Boccaccio’s Ninfale Fiesolano in English Translation Guyda ArmstrongPART THREE: INSTRUCTION THROUGH TRANSLATIONVersifying Philosophy: Thomas Blundeville’s Plutarch Robert CummingsWar, What is it good for? Sixteenth-Century English Translations of Ancient Roman Texts on Warfare Fred Schurink Cato in England: Translating Latin Sayings for Moral and Linguistic Instruction Demmy Verbeke PART FOUR: SHAPING MIND AND NATION THROUGH TRANSLATION John Hester’s Translations of Leonardo Fioravanti: The Literary Career of a London Distiller Isabelle Pantin “For the Common Good and for the National Interest:” Paratexts in English Translations of Navigational Works 185 Susanna De Schepper Henry Hexham (c.1585–1650), English Soldier, Author, Translator, Lexicographer, and Cultural Mediator in the Low Countries Paul Hoftijzer “Newes Lately Come”: European News Books in English Translation S.K. Barker Index