The World Within Reach: Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550-1700

This book traces the history of translation in the Early Modern Low Countries (roughly the modern-day Netherlands and Belgium), from around 1550 to around 1700. It focuses on the various roles played by translation in different contexts.

In the latter half of the sixteenth century translation stoked religious conflict and the civil war that eventually divided the territory into two, ideologically opposed political entities. After 1600 it buttressed the economic wealth and overseas expansion ...