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Translation Movement is a category for books that explore large, organized efforts to translate bodies of knowledge across languages and cultures, and the transformative exchanges they enabled. It includes histories and case studies of specific movements (such as the Abbasid-era House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the Toledo School of Translators in medieval Spain, the translation of Buddhist canons in East and Central Asia, and Renaissance humanist revivals of Greek texts), along with biographies of translators and patrons, critical anthologies and primary sources from these projects, and analyses linking translation practices to shifts in language, literature, science, philosophy, and religion. Titles often examine the methods, politics, and networks of translation; debates over fidelity versus adaptation; and how texts traveled through empires, trade, and missionary activity. This category serves readers interested in intellectual history, world literature, translation studies, and the history of ideas.

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