Humanities (Mar 2012)

Translation as the Catalyst of Cultural Transfer

  • Albrecht Classen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/h1010072
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 72 – 79

Abstract

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This essay reflects on the many different strategies involved in translation, which is both a linguistic and a cultural-historical strategy. Examples from the Middle Ages and the Modern Age are adduced to illustrate the huge impact which translations have had on peoples and societies throughout time.

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