British encounters with Ottoman minorities in the early seventeenth century [electronic resource] : 'slaves' of the sultan / Eva Johanna Holmberg.

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British encounters with Ottoman minorities in the early seventeenth century [electronic resource] : 'slaves' of the sultan / Eva Johanna Holmberg.

9783030972288 (electronic bk.)
3030972283 (electronic bk.)
3030972275
9783030972271

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

©2002

English

1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-030-97228-8 doi

G242 .H65 2022

910.941

British travelers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as 'slaves of the sultan', yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of how British travelers understood the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination, de-centering the image of the 'Terrible Turk' and Islam.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

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Early modern cultural studies.

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