Ebook: Ideologies of Translation, I

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'.