The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk 1453-1517 - Couverture souple

Schwoebel, Robert

 
9789061943099: The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk 1453-1517
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ISBN 10 : 9061943094 ISBN 13 : 9789061943099
Editeur : Hes & de Graaf Publishers bv, 1967

Synopsis

Can we learn from history? A timely problem in the light of the recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and the immanent threat of international terrorism.The from time to time uneasy relations between the Christian West and the Islam originate in the seventh and eighth centuries and took shape in the Renaissance when for the first time in history knowledge of the Turks a synonym of Muslims was growing fast on the basis of first-hand experience, whether as agents of a western power, or as captives of the Turks. Apart from the unhappy but apparently universal tendency to represent one s enemy as the personification of evil, the fifteenth and early sixteenth western characterizations of the Ottomans as the sworn foe of Christianity are still pervading our concepts and terms, and are still formative for our own views. HES & DE GRAAF Publishers re-issues `The Shadow of the Crescent`, because the book is concerned with the image of the Turk in the West after the fall of Constantinople till the beginnings of the Reformation and deals with the western attitude toward the Ottomans and the growing importance of the Islam. Certainly the problems were, and still are immense; not exactly the same, but undoubtedly comparable. At least we can learn from this book that there is nothing new under the sun

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Can we learn from history? A timely problem in the light of the recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and the immanent threat of international terrorism.The from time to time uneasy relations between the Christian West and the Islam originate in the seventh and eighth centuries and took shape in the Renaissance when for the first time in history knowledge of the Turks a synonym of Muslims was growing fast on the basis of first-hand experience, whether as agents of a western power, or as captives of the Turks. Apart from the unhappy but apparently universal tendency to represent one s enemy as the personification of evil, the fifteenth and early sixteenth western characterizations of the Ottomans as the sworn foe of Christianity are still pervading our concepts and terms, and are still formative for our own views. HES & DE GRAAF Publishers re-issues `The Shadow of the Crescent`, because the book is concerned with the image of the Turk in the West after the fall of Constantinople till the beginnings of the Reformation and deals with the western attitude toward the Ottomans and the growing importance of the Islam. Certainly the problems were, and still are immense; not exactly the same, but undoubtedly comparable. At least we can learn from this book that there is nothing new under the sun

Revue de presse

This book is primarily a survey of European responses, political as well as literary, to the Turkish advance into Europe between the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation" --American Historical Review, vol 74, nr 2 (Dec. 1968))

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Éditeur
Hes & de Graaf Publishers bv
Date d'édition
1967
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9061943094
ISBN 13 
9789061943099
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0312714009 ISBN 13 :  9780312714000
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