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British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century - 'Slaves' of the Sultan

English · Hardback

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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.

List of contents

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.

About the author










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).


Product details

Authors Eva Johanna Holmberg
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2022
 
EAN 9783030972271
ISBN 978-3-0-3097227-1
No. of pages 228
Dimensions 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XV, 228 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Series Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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