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This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Jerry Brotton
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Description for This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1QFM; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator 'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily Telegraph In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped munitions ... Read more
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator 'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily Telegraph In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped munitions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141978673
SKU
V9780141978673
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About Jerry Brotton
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize) and ... Read more
Reviews for This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Jerry Brotton's fabulous new book [reveals] just how deep and entangled the roots of the Islamic and Christian faiths were in the early modern period. ... a timely intervention and a marvellous achievement.
Marcus Nevitt
Spectator
There is much in these pages to delight and provoke... This Orient Isle is a richly resonant work which not only ... Read more
Marcus Nevitt
Spectator
There is much in these pages to delight and provoke... This Orient Isle is a richly resonant work which not only ... Read more