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Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

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Key protagonists in these debates included Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli. Today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel, and direct contact with the Ottoman Empire was scarce or nonexistent. Nor were they well disposed to its predecessor, the Byzantine Empire, whose fall presented them with an intellectual conundrum: how were they to explain the irresistible advance of the Ottomans across the Balkans and the inability of Christian Europe to hold the line? They also felt compelled to incorporate this significant new threat into their vision of a world order, to rationalise it, to unravel its origins. These discussions spawned a common market of ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, as Europeans debated and represented the Ottoman threat. Readers of this book will find many echoes in Pippidi's analysis of today's debates about the relationship of Turkey with Europe and the struggle to accommodate the descendants of the Ottomans in our midst.

Book information

ISBN: 9780199327836
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.48240560
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 386g
Height: 218mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 20mm