The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies is an exploration of the history of translation and interpreting studies (TIS) as a field of intellectual enquiry.

The volume covers the evolution of thinking on translation, from the earliest discourses in Assyria, Egypt, Israel, China, India, Greece, and Rome, up to the early 20th century when TIS emerged as an identifiable academic field. The volume also traces the institutionalization of TIS and its key concepts from their beginnings in the 1920s in Ukraine up to their contemporary interdisciplinary manifestations. Written by leading international scholars, many of whom played a direct role in the events they describe, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive and in-depth account of the birth and consolidation of translation and interpreting studies as a thriving interdiscipline.

With a focus on providing readers with the methodological and theoretical tools they need to conduct research, as well as background in the historiography of TIS, this handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation and interpreting studies.

PART I: The Intellectual history of translation 1. Earliest Discourses on Translation 2. Classical Antiquity 3. The Middle Ages 4. The Early Modern Period: Renaissance to Enlightenment 5. Translation in the Nineteenth Century 6. The Twentieth Century up to the End of the Second World War PART II : Translation and interpreting studies as an interdiscipline 7. The First Comprehensive Treatments of Translation in Eastern Europe (1950s-60s) 8. Linguistic Theories of Translation 9. Functional Translation Theories 10. Semiotics of Translation 11. Interpreting Studies 12. The History of Translation and Interpreting 13. The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies 14. Sociological Translation Theories 15. Humanizing Translation 16. Audiovisual Translation Studies 17. Corpus-Based Translation Studies 18. Experimental Translation Studies 19. The History of Translation Technologies 20. Historical Perspectives on the Learning and Teaching of Translation and Interpreting 21. Methodology in Translation Studies PART III: Key Concepts 22. Translation 23. Meaning in Translation
24. Adequacy and Acceptability 25. Source and Target Texts 26. Directionality in Translation 27. Translation and Interpreting Process Research 28. Translation Quality 29. Translation Universals 30. Agency and Performativity in Translation