British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century

'Slaves' of the Sultan
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-97230-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of how British travellers understood the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination, de-centering the image of the ‘Terrible Turk’ and Islam.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmberg, Eva Johanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Chapter 1 - Scattered nations: Jews and Greeks.- Chapter 2 - Eastern Christians.- Chapter 3 - Viewing and addressing women.- Chapter 4 - Free Franks and visiting Westerners.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Eva Johanna Holmberg is an Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a visiting research fellow at the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her previous publications include Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination – A Scattered Nation (2012).