‘If the Past is a Foreign Country’: Neo-Latin Histories, their Paratexts, and English Cultural Translation

Abstract

"This essay...examine[s] the prefatorial paratexts accompanying histories trans- lated out of and into neo-Latin in order to explore how they acted as ‘thresholds’ leading the reader into the text, functioned as a means of marketing the work, and, above all, reflected changes that would make it more attractive and accessible for a new readership in a different linguistic and cultural context."