Cultural Encounters Between East and West, 1453-1699

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Matthew Birchwood, Matthew Dimmock
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005 - History - 234 pages
A radical reappraisal of the relationship between â ~eastâ (TM) and â ~westâ (TM) is currently underway. Critical approaches to the early modern period have too often tacitly assumed a binary opposition between a civilised Christendom and the encroaching barbarity of the â ~infidelâ (TM). Whilst the conquest of Constantinople of 1453 did indeed became a potent symbol of Ottoman imperial ambition, the complexity of the cultural negotiations in the myriad encounters - diplomatic, mercantile, religious and military - of the following years refutes the Euro-centric assumptions of traditional historiography. 1453 to 1699: Cultural Encounters between East and West seeks to bring together exciting new work in this emerging field from across the international academic community. The product of a successful inter-disciplinary conference, this volume engages with fields of history, cultural studies, art history, literary theory and anthropology, comprehensively remapping the complex contours of East-West encounters. In the light of current world events, the need to historicise and contextualise this relationship is more urgent than ever.

 

Contents

The Saracen in the Medieval
13
The AngloMuslim Disputation in the Early Modern Period
29
Responses to the AngloOttoman
43
Titus Oates and the True Protestant Turks
64
Reading Barbary in Early Modern England 15501685
77
Rituals of Submission Along the East
107
Masculinity Travels East
132
Abraham and the Abrahamic in Titus
145
The Ottoman Empire and Europe in Political History through
168
Early English Encounters with the Fauna
195
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
216
INDEX
231
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