Translating Tacitus. The reception of Tacitus's works in the vernacular languages of Europe, 16th-17th centuries

In Translating Tacitus. The reception of Tacitus's works in the vernacular languages of Europe, 16th-17th Century, Saúl Martínez Bermejo (autonomous University of Madrid explores early modern european political culture throught an unusual prism. Tacitus's work - in both critical editions and vernacular translations - were best-sellers across 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Bringing a historical perspective to translation studies Saul Martinez Bermejo shows how political categories and debate could be moulded by the choice of texts and the way translations were carried out.
Far from being pedestrian transformations of Tacitus's texts from latin into languages more familiar to the less educated, the translations were sophisticated tools for proposing historical interpretaions and political points of view.
The volume is the fifteenth in a series based on dissertations completed by doctoral researchers who have participated in CHLIORES.net, a network of Excellence for Histiry supported by European commission throught its Directorate General for Research's Sixth Framework Programme.