Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe - Couverture rigide

Pippidi, Andrei

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199327831 ISBN 13 : 9780199327836

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

Synopsis

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. These discussions spawned a common market of ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, as Europeans debated and represented the Ottoman threat. Readers of this book will find many echoes in Pippidi's analysis of today's debates about the relationship of Turkey with Europe and the struggle to accommodate the descendants of the Ottomans in our midst.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrei Pippidi is Emeritus Chair of Medieval History at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199327831
• ISBN 13: 9780199327836
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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