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Andrei Puppidi - Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe - 9781849041997 - V9781849041997
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Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe

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Description for Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe Hardback. How the great minds of the West formed an image of the Ottoman Empire and of Eastern Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intellectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of Pippidi's pathbreaking book. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDT; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
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. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041997
SKU
V9781849041997
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About Andrei Puppidi
Andrei Pippidi is Emeritus Chair of Medieval History at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Reviews for Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe
'In this agreeable little book Andrei Pippidi gives an elegant survey of a field that has been much studied in recent years.'
Times Literary Supplement
'This one of the most fascinating scholarly works that I have ever read. The author's cultural knowledge is enormous, based on research into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript manuscripts as well as sources in ... Read more

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