Translation history is emerging as a distinct field of study (cf. Rundle 2019) and has a bright future. It is not yet a mature field with flawless research methodology, despite the efforts of many translation theorists and significant achievements in recent years. The Itineraries in Translation History series of conferences, which were held at the universities of Tallinn and Tartu in Estonia from 2010 to 2018, have considerably furthered the disciplinary consolidation of translation history. Until recently, translation history focused on narration and analysis of individual translation histories with little interest in its historiography, but this has now begun to change. The Routledge Handbook of Translation History (henceforth referred to as ‘the Handbook’), edited by Christopher Rundle and published by Routledge in 2022, provides a multifaceted discussion of the most recent theoretical, descriptive, and applied research into the history of translation and interpreting in 30 invited chapters written by eminent scholars, offering many innovative perspectives on translation history.

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Gentzler, Edwin

2001 Contemporary Translation Theories. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Olohan, Maeve

2014 “History of Science and History of Translation: Disciplinary commensurability?”. The Translator 20:1.9–25.

Rundle, Christopher

2014 “Theories and Methodologies of Translation History: The value of an interdisciplinary approach”. The Translator 20:1.2–8.

Rundle, Christopher

2019 “Historiography”. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies ed. by Mona Baker & Gabriela Saldanha, 232–236. London: Routledge.

Stavrianos, L. S.

2013 A Global History: From prehistory to the 21st century. Beijing: Peking University Press.

Taylor, Christopher & Elisa Perego

eds. 2022 The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description. New York: Routledge.