دانلود کتاب Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: An Essay on Language, Culture, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on and Approaches to Communication, Translation, and Community
Ways of Communication and Mis/communication in Abū Tammām’s “Ode on the Conquest of Amorium” (838 C.E.)
Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers
(Non)-Imaginary Ideal Communities in the Pre-Modern World: A Reading in the Utopian Works of al-Fārābi’, Ibn Khaldūn, Christine de Pizan, and Thomas More
A Jewish Moneylender, Miscommunication, and a Lie: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagro no. 23
Words, Signs, Meanings: William Langland’s Piers Plowman as a Window on Linguistic Chaos
The Chaucerian Translator
Entertainment, Laughter, and Reflections as a Training Ground for Communication in Public and Private: The Case of Heinrich Kaufringer, ca. 1400
…written in my own Jewish hand
Demonic Operators: Forbidden Relations in Medieval Communication
Paroemiac Expressions: A Touch of Color in the Ambassadors’ Diplomatic Correspondence in the Fifteenth Century
Communication and Translation in Early Modern Basque Society. The Role Played by the Public Notaries
Preventing Miscommunication: Early Modern German Surgeons as Specialized Translators
Reputation and Authority in the Physicians’ Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech-Language Sources of the Early Modern Period
The Physicians’ Community in Pre-Thirty Years’ War Bohemia
A Bond of True Love: Performing Courtship and Betrothal in Gower’s Cinkante balades and Spenser’s Amoretti, in Light of Christine de Pizan’s Cent balades
Noble Friendship in Relation to the Community: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice
Deconstructing the (Mis)Interpretation of Paratextual Elements in Ross’s English Translation of the Qur’ān, The Alcoran of Mahomet (1649)
Community and the Others: Unveiling Boundaries in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Biographies of the Contributors
Index