Ingram, Anders

Writing the Ottomans: Turkish history in early modern England

by Ingram, Anders

fromEarly modern literature in history

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Turkish history in early english print -- Conflict, news, and history -- "The present terrour of the world": Knolles's Generall historie of the Turkes -- Trade, diplomacy, and history -- The War of the Holy League 1683-1699 -- Conclusion

Writing the Ottomans: Turkish history in early modern England

by Ingram, Anders

fromEarly modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Fir…

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Histories of the Turks were a central means through which English authors engaged in intellectual and cultural terms with the Ottoman Empire, its advance into Europe following the capture of Constantinople (1454), and its continuing central European power up to the treaty of Kar…

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century a large and complex English literature on the Ottoman Turks developed, characterised by its diversity in form, content, opinion and context. This was a literature in the sense of a large body of texts sharing a topic, written i…