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This book highlights the crucial contributions of translators in shaping early modern diplomacy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the growing complexity of international relations and communication in this era.The early modern period was a transformative time for European diplomacy, marked by the rise of resident diplomacy, the advent of peace congresses, and significant shifts in linguistic practices. As Latin, German, and Italian waned as major diplomatic languages, French emerged as the dominant pan-European medium of diplomatic communication. These changes had profound implications for translation in diplomacy, shaping its role, function, and institutionalisation. New translation departments were established, and the need for trained translators became critical, leading to the foundation of schools and the development of specialised practices. By adopting a transnational perspective, the book offers a fresh, insightful exploration of the evolution of translation and its impact on the expanding network of diplomatic contacts and correspondence.Bringing a panoramic and multidisciplinary approach to the history of translation, this book is intended for scholars and students of the early modern period, translation studies, the history of diplomacy, the history of languages and historical sociolinguistics, and European cultural history more generally.The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) International license.Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International license.

This book highlights the crucial contributions of translators in shaping early modern diplomacy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the growing complexity of international relations and communication in this era.The early modern period was a transformative time for European diplomacy, marked by the rise of resident diplomacy, the advent of peace congresses, and significant shifts in linguistic practices. As Latin, German, and Italian waned as major diplomatic languages, French emerged as the dominant pan-European medium of diplomatic communication. These changes had profound implications for translation in diplomacy, shaping its role, function, and institutionalisation. New translation departments were established, and the need for trained translators became critical, leading to the foundation of schools and the development of specialised practices. By adopting a transnational perspective, the book offers a fresh, insightful exploration of the evolution of translation and its impact on the expanding network of diplomatic contacts and correspondence.Bringing a panoramic and multidisciplinary approach to the history of translation, this book is intended for scholars and students of the early modern period, translation studies, the history of diplomacy, the history of languages and historical sociolinguistics, and European cultural history more generally.

This book highlights the crucial contributions of translators in shaping early modern diplomacy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the growing complexity of international relations and communication in this era.The early modern period was a transformative time for European diplomacy, marked by the rise of resident diplomacy, the advent of peace congresses, and significant shifts in linguistic practices. As Latin, German, and Italian waned as major diplomatic languages, French emerged as the dominant pan-European medium of diplomatic communication. These changes had profound implications for translation in diplomacy, shaping its role, function, and institutionalisation. New translation departments were established, and the need for trained translators became critical, leading to the foundation of schools and the development of specialised practices. By adopting a transnational perspective, the book offers a fresh, insightful exploration of the evolution of translation and its impact on the expanding network of diplomatic contacts and correspondence.Bringing a panoramic and multidisciplinary approach to the history of translation, this book is intended for scholars and students of the early modern period, translation studies, the history of diplomacy, the history of languages and historical sociolinguistics, and European cultural history more generally.

Im Zuge der französischen Expansion um 1800 wurden große Gebiete als Départements dem Empire angegliedert. Nach und nach wurden diese für eine ganz unterschiedliche Dauer vom Reformwerk der Französischen Revolution erfasst: Privilegien von Kirche und Adel wurden abgeschafft und die Wirtschaftsordnung liberalisiert. Die Bürger sollten rechtlich gleichgestellt werden. Die napoleonische Herrschaft wies jedoch beträchtliche Phasenverschiebungen auf, die von den militärischen und politischen Ereignissen geprägt waren. Hinzu kamen Unterschiede, die auf den geographischen und politischen Stellenwert der jeweiligen Region im napoleonischen Herrschaftsentwurf zurückzuführen sind. Der vorliegende Band möchte den Charakter der napoleonischen Herrschaft im Spannungsfeld von Eroberungs- und Integrationspolitik neu bestimmen unter Berücksichtigung zentraler Aspekte: Raum und Politik; Gesellschaft und Krieg; Wirtschaft und Umwelt; Repräsentation und Nachleben. Das geographische Spektrum der Beiträge reicht vom Rheinland über die Schweiz, Piemont, Ligurien und Rom bis nach Süditalien.

Kulturgeschichtliche Ansätze zur Erforschung diplomatischer Akteure und Strukturen in der Vormoderne haben aktuell zu Recht Konjunktur. Sie ermöglichen neue thematische Zugänge ebenso wie erhebliche Perspektiverweiterungen. Im Rahmen einer Alltags- und neueren Kulturgeschichte der Diplomatie rückten dabei jüngst lebensweltliche Erfahrungen, mentale Prägungen, soziale und zeremonielle Praktiken diplomatischer Akteure sowie Probleme interkultureller Kommunikation in den Fokus des Forschungsinteresses. Wegweisende Studien folgen hier einem semiotisch-interaktionistischen Kulturverständnis. Dennoch wurden frühneuzeitliche diplomatische Wissenskulturen mit der doppelten Perspektivierung, die ein solcher Zugriff erfordert, einerseits im Hinblick auf kulturelle Prägungen der Akteure und andererseits auf ihre Rolle bei der Wissensproduktion, -transformation und -zirkulation, bislang noch nicht systematisch erforscht. Der vorliegende Band versucht, erste Ansätze und Wege zur Erforschung dieses Problemfeldes aufzuzeigen. Er nähert sich dem Thema anhand von Höfen, Friedenskongressen und Ständeversammlungen (insbesondere Reichstagen) als zentralen Erfahrungsräumen und Orten der Wissensproduktion frühneuzeitlicher Diplomatie.

Approaching early modern spies, espionage and secret diplomacy as central elements in (wartime) communication networks, the thirteen contributions to this volume examine different kinds of espionage (economic espionage, political espionage etc.), identify different types of spies - diplomats, postmasters, court musicians, cooks and prostitutes - and reflect the multiple meanings and functions of information obtained through the many practices of spying in the early modern period. Drawing on examples from a wide range of states and empires, the volume looks into recruitment strategies and cryptography, highlights processes of professionalization and traces the reputation of spies ranging from the >honourablevillain<.

Les pratiques communicatives dans la diplomatie ont récemment suscité un intérêt accru dans la recherche. Malgré la prépondérance croissante d''une langue, les relations internationales, de la fin du Moyen Âge à nos jours, sont caractérisées par le multilinguisme. Comme cela entraîne souvent des problèmes de traduction, les traductions et les traducteurs jouent un rôle important de passerelle. Le présent ouvrage jette un regard transpériode et interdisciplinaire sur ces processus, du point de vue de la recherche historique, de la linguistique et de la traductologie. Une attention particulière est accordée aux acteurs et aux pratiques de la traduction, depuis le Royaume de Naples à la fin du Moyen Âge jusqu''à la Révolution française et aux Nations unies d''aujourd''hui.Communicative practices in diplomacy have recently attracted increased interest in research. Despite the increasing dominance of one language, diplomatic foreign relations from the late Middle Ages to the present are characterised by multilingualism. As this often leads to translation problems, translations and translators have an important bridging function. This volume takes a trans-epochal, interdisciplinary look at these processes from the perspectives of history, linguistics and translation studies. Particular attention is paid to the actors and practices of translation - from the late medieval Kingdom of Naples to the French Revolution and today''s United Nations.