Dragoman Renaissance
Subtitle: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781501758492
Subjects: Balkan peninsula, history
Description: "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"--