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Article: Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice. By MASSIMILIANO MORINI. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. xi+151 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5240-3.
Massimiliano Morini's new book is an ambitious attempt to provide 'a comprehensive study in which the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator are exhaustively described' (p. vii). This is perhaps not quite that study, but it is highly readable and provides a good introduction to a crucial moment in the history of translation. Morini views the sixteenth century as a period of transition between medieval practices of translation (which often incorporated elements of ...