Ideologies of Translation, I

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In this issue we present the outcomes of a research initiative undertaken by our colleagues Pavlína Rychterová und Christian Gastgeber at IMAFO, which was based on the ERC project 'Origins of the Vernacular Mode. Regional Identities and Textual Networks in Late Medieval Europe (OVERMODE)' (2011-2017), successive conference presentations on the politics, 'professional' translators and cultural dynamics of translations at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds 2013, as well as the follow-up project COST Action IS 1301 'New Communities of Interpretation. Contexts, Strategies, and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe'. In the course of the ongoing research initiative, a close exchange network was established with the Cardiff conferences focusing on the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages (The Medieval Translator). The 11th Cardiff conference was thus hosted in Vienna in 2017. The result of the continuous in-depth collaboration and discussion led to this fine selection of articles, all of which investigate different technologies, politics and cultures of translation from ideological as well as practical perspectives, as Pavlína Rychterová points out in her opening article 'Instead of an Introduction: Medieval Europe Translated'. Instead of an Introduction: Medieval Europe Translated / Pavlína Rychterová Technologies of Translation The Byzantine Imperial Chancery and its Language Policy from Justin II to Leo III (Sixth-Eighth Centuries): From Latin to Greek / Christian Gastgeber Translation as Interpretation: Translating Galen’s Polysemous Term 'Physis' into Arabic / Elvira Wakelnig Between Languages, Genres and Cultures: Diego Collado’s Linguistic Works / Jan Odstrčilík Politics of Translation The Latin Talmud and the Extension of Papal Jurisdiction over Jews / Alexander Fidora 'For they did not change their language' (MekhY Pischa 5): On the Early Medieval Literary Rehebraicisation of Jewish Culture / Constanza Cordoni Cultures of Translation The Tibetan Translation of the Indian Buddhist Epistemological Corpus / Pascale Hugon Translation as Commentary in the Sanskrit-Old Javanese Didactic and Religious Literature from Java and Bali / Andrea Acri and Thomas M. Hunter Project Report An Interim Report on the Editorial and Analytical Work of the AnonymClassic Project / Beatrice Gruendler, Jan J. van Ginkel, Rima Redwan, Khouloud Khalfallah, Isabel Toral, Johannes Stephan, Matthew L. Keegan, Theodore S. Beers, Mahmoud Kozae, Marwa M. Ahmed