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Item Number: 130485
Title: Images of Islam, 1453–1600 : Turks in Germany and Central Europe
Author: Smith, Charlotte Colding
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781848934061
Description: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 304pp. illus. Summary: Using evidence from contemporary printed images, Smith examines the attitudes of Christian Europe to the Ottoman Empire and to Islam. Conflicting feelings of fascination and fear among individuals reflect wider societal issues within the changing social, political and religious climate of Central Europe. Smith also considers the relationship between text and image, placing it in the cultural context of the Reformation and beyond. Contents: 1 Early Images of the Turk and the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1520. 2 Military Images of the Turk and the Conflicts of the Sixteenth Century. 3 Biblical Images of the Turk: The Apocalyptic and the Exotic. 4 Travellers' Tales and Images of the Ottoman Empire and Court of Constantinople. 5 Ottoman Dress in Sixteenth-Century German Printed Costume Books. 6 Genealogies, Histories, Cosmographies: Encyclopaedic Images of the Turk. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 16)
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