Marcos Sarmiento Pérez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marcos Sarmiento Pérez is involved.
Articles
2023 Chapter 4. An overview of the role of interpreters during the Portuguese expansion through Africa (1415–1600) Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 81–119 | Chapter
Portugal’s great breakthrough between 1415 and 1499 during the Age of Discovery was rounding the African coastline, from Ceuta in the Strait of Gibraltar to Mogadishu in the Horn of Africa. The current chapter, founded on prior research, advances an overview of the strategies adopted by the… read more
2016 Interpreting for the Inquisition New Insights in the History of Interpreting, Takeda, Kayoko and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 47–74 | Article
One of the singularities of the Spanish Inquisition was its multilingualism. This
chapter looks at mediation in this institution, which carried out its activities
throughout practically the whole of the Spanish Empire over three and a half
centuries (1478–1834). After the initial delimitation of… read more
2011 The role of interpreters in the conquest and acculturation of the Canary Archipelago Interpreting 13:2, pp. 155–175 | Article
From the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the fifteenth, the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula used the Canary Archipelago as a testing ground for their later conquests and colonization in the Americas. Numerous interpreters, among them many women, enabled communication between Europeans,… read more