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Writing History at the Ottoman Court

2013-06-06 History
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Book Synopsis Writing History at the Ottoman Court by : H. Erdem Cipa

Download or read book Writing History at the Ottoman Court written by H. Erdem Cipa. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations of key manuscripts. It answers such questions as how the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others; how they visualized the ideal ruler; how they defined their culture and place in the world; and what the significance of Islam was in their self-definition.

Picturing History at the Ottoman Court

2013 Art
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Release : 2013
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Picturing History at the Ottoman Court by : Emine Fetvacı

Download or read book Picturing History at the Ottoman Court written by Emine Fetvacı. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the simultaneous crafting of political power, the codification of a historical record, and the unfolding of cultural change

Writing the Ottomans

2015-07-24 Social Science
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Release : 2015-07-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Writing the Ottomans by : Anders Ingram

Download or read book Writing the Ottomans written by Anders Ingram. This book was released on 2015-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Karlowitz (1699). Writing the Ottomans examines historical writing on the Turks in England from 1480-1700. It explores the evolution of this discourse from its continental roots, and its development in response to moments of military crisis such as the Long War of 1593-1606 and the War of the Holy League 1683-1699, as well as Anglo-Ottoman trade and diplomacy throughout the seventeenth century. From the writing of central authors such as Richard Knolles and Paul Rycaut, to lesser known names, it reads English histories of the Turks in their intellectual, religious, political, economic and print contexts, and analyses their influence on English perceptions of the Ottoman world.

Looking East

2007-09-05 History
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Release : 2007-09-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Looking East by : Gerald Maclean

Download or read book Looking East written by Gerald Maclean. This book was released on 2007-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking East explores early modern English attitudes toward the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. To a nation just arriving on the international scene, the Ottoman Empire was at once the great enemy and scourge of Christendom, and at the same time the fabulously wealthy and magnificent court from which the sultan ruled over three continents with his great and powerful army. By taking the imaginative, literary and poetic writing about the Ottoman Turks and putting it alongside contemporary historical documents, the book shows that fascination with the Ottoman Empire shaped how the English thought about and represented their own place within the world as a nation with increasing imperial ambitions of its own.

Lords of the Horizons

2014-06-10 History
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Release : 2014-06-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Lords of the Horizons by : Jason Goodwin

Download or read book Lords of the Horizons written by Jason Goodwin. This book was released on 2014-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing." --The New York Times Book Review Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one.

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