Norms of Transcription and Translation
List of Abbreviations
List of Maps and Images

Introduction, Philip Hahn, Anne Mariss, and Laura Dierksmeier (Saarland University, University of Regensburg and University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Part I: Translating the World: Moving Ideas across Language Barriers
1. Brothers in Arms? Translating Ethiopian Christianity in Reformation Germany and the Making of the Confessional Divide, Christina Brauner (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
2. Marcus zum Lamm's Image of “Constantinus Magnus” and the Visual Multiplicities of the Early Modern Era, Frederick Crofts (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
3. Researching Arabic in Eighteenth-Century Gottingen: Johann David Michaelis and His Sources, Tobias P. Graf (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
4. Missionary Circuits and Indigenous Navigation in Colonial Chile, Carmen Channing, (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
5. Gesturing Words and Worlds: Translation of Indigenous Knowledge through Maps, Objects and Bodies in Colonial Mexico, Irina Saladin (University of Koblenz, Germany)
6. Running like the Raramuri? A Case Study in the Long History of Inventing and Appropriating the Indigenous, Simon Siemianowski (University of Tuebingen, Germany
7. They Are Like Us: Knowledge of Tibetan Religion in the Early Letters of Ippolito Desideri, Rafael Streib (DHBW Heidenheim, Germany)
Part II: Natural Knowledge in Transit: Objects, Bodies and Belief
8. When Indigenous Knowledge Challenged the Inquisition: A Priest's Defense of Medicinal Cannabis, Laura Dierksmeier (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
9. Sleeping in a Net Between the Trees: Brazilian Hammocks from the Stuttgart Kunstkammer, Ruth Egger (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
10. Time in Motion: Portable Sundials and the Cosmology of Everyday Life, Sky Michael Johnston (Trinity Christian College, Illinois, USA)
11. Ceremonial Practice, Medical Knowledge, and Emotional Communication in the Death Announcement of Archduchess Katharina Renata (1595), Julia Hodapp (Technische Hochschule Cologne, Germany)
12. A Land Hot and Wet: Maria Sibylla Merian (1649–1717) in Suriname, Richard Calis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
13. Jerusalem in a Box: Protestant Uses of Loca Sancta Relics and Empirical Devotion in Eighteenth- Century Germany, Anne Mariss (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Part III: Living at a Distance: The Global Lives of Knowledge
14. The Intercontinental Circulation of Persons, Objects and Ideas – The Formula of the Jesuit Congregations of Procurators, Fabian Fechner (University of Hagen, Germany)
15. To be Versed in the Greater Part of Christendom: Two Father-Son Instructions for Achieving Catholic Cosmopolitanism, Adrian Masters (University of Trier, Germany)
16. Networks of Information in the Spanish Empire, Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham, UK)
17. Moving Experts, Moving Expertise: Knowledge and Mobility in Spanish Imperial Governance, Marie Schreier (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
18. From Exile to Eden: Huguenot Explorations of the Indian Ocean, Lionel Laborie (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
19. Writing and waiting: A register of letters of a German father and his three sons in the East Indies, Philip Hahn (Saarland University, Germany)
Conclusion, Philip Hahn, Anne Mariss, and Laura Dierksmeier (Saarland University, University of Regensburg and University of Tuebingen, Germany)

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