In this article, I examine the relationship between mobility and trust in the work and life of a wide range of early modern diplomatic interpreters. I address this relationship by bringing together archival material unearthed by literary scholars and social historians: specifically, historians of diplomacy, translation, and interpreting. I seek to address these documents from the perspective of occasional dragomans who found themselves performing the often-dangerous role of intercultural mediation in exchange for money, an improved social status, or freedom.

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• Rizzi, A., (2025), "Interpreting in Early Modern Diplomacy: Occasional Mobility and the Liminal Spaces of Trust", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Rizzi, Andrea. "Interpreting in Early Modern Diplomacy: Occasional Mobility and the Liminal Spaces of Trust." Renaissance and Reformation 44 (1): 2021. 9-28. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v44i1.37040. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.