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This microhistory of the Salvagos-an Istanbul family of Venetian
interpreters and spies travelling the sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Mediterranean-is a remarkable feat of the
historian's craft of storytelling. With his father having been
killed by secret order of Venice and his nephew to be publicly
assassinated by Ottoman authorities, Genesino Salvago and his
brothers started writing self-narratives. When crossing the borders
of words and worlds, the Salvagos' self-narratives helped navigate
at times beneficial, other times unsettling entanglements of
empire, family, and translation. The discovery of an
autobiographical text with rich information on Southeastern Europe,
edited here for the first time, is the starting point of this
extraordinary microbiography of a family's intense struggle for
manoeuvring a changing world disrupted by competition, betrayal,
and colonialism. This volume recovers the Venetian life stories of
Ottoman subjects and the crucial role of translation in negotiating
a shared but fragile Mediterranean. Stefan Hanss examines an
interpreter's translational practices of the self and recovers the
wider Mediterranean significance of the early modern Balkan contact
zone. Offering a novel conversation between translation studies,
Mediterranean studies, and the history of life-writing, this volume
argues that dragomans' practices of translation, border-crossing,
and mobility were key to their experiences and performances of the
self. This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the
early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman
Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of
translation. Hanss presents a truly fascinating narrative; a
microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material
world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has
both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a
distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive
for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how
affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and
exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use
of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our
understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period
by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal,
the authors approach "the material" through four themes - glass,
feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific
individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In
examining these four types of materialities and object groups,
which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations,
this book charts how each underwent significant changes during this
period.
"This is a tour de force of sophisticated global erudition."
-Filippo de Vivo, University of Oxford, UK "In its wide global
range and rich variety of studies, this expertly edited volume
provides an unprecedented view into the scribal practices of
diverse cultural traditions in the early modern period." -Johanna
Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles, USA "This volume
finally gives the colophon the place it deserves. We see scribes
and printers at work in Thailand, the Deccan, Delhi, Damascus,
Antwerp, and Timbuktu." -Konrad Hirschler, University of Hamburg,
Germany "In this cross-disciplinary endeavor, ten authors tell
lively and exciting stories of historical scribal practices."
-Verena Klemm, University of Leipzig, Germany This book is the
first to chart the global diversity of colophons between 1400 and
1800. The volume presents a new approach to scribal cultures that
expands traditional definitions. Moving from the paradigm of
codicological information towards a thorough interpretation of the
wider social worlds of colophons in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North
America, this volume uncovers the fascinating cultural history of
early modern scribes. Chapters examine how those engaging in the
composition and distribution of colophons shaped scribal
identities, group cultures and bookish communities in a world in
which manuscripts mattered. Authors build on approaches from
anthropology, cultural studies, codicology, history, and philology
to offer a new conceptual framework that studies colophons as
scribal practices embedded in their changing social and cultural
worlds. As a new contribution to the history of the book, this
volume's global approach pushes the boundaries of what constitutes
a colophon.
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