Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities

Hilary Brown, Regina Toepfer, Jörg Wesche

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J.B. Metzler
03 August 2025

Translation & interpretation; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Social research & statistics; Computing: general; Natural language & machine translation

Series: Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit

This open-access volume explores how digital resources and methods can be usefully employed for research on early modern translation. The volume focuses mainly on digital resources, and features a number of chapters on translation-specific resources written by members of the teams leading the projects. The resources presented here encompass translations into and/or out of Greek, Latin, the European vernaculars, and Jewish languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Italian) and different corpora including plays, encyclopedias, and ‘radical’ texts. While the use of digital methods to analyse early modern translations is still in its early stages, the volume also considers how methods such as data visualisation could shed new light on translation phenomena.

Edited by: Hilary Brown, Regina Toepfer, Jörg Wesche
Imprint: J.B. Metzler
Country of Publication: Germany
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783662704820
ISBN 10: 366270482X
Series: Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit
Pages: 189
Publication Date: 03 August 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction.- contributions.

Dr Hilary Brown is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham. Regina Toepfer is Chair of German Philology (Older Dept) at the University of Würzburg and spokesperson for the DFG Priority Programme 2130 'Early Modern Translation Cultures'. Jörg Wesche is Professor of Digital Humanities and German Literature from the 17th century to the Goethe era at the University of Göttingen.