The Renaissance and the Ottoman world / edited by Anna Contadini, Claire Norton. - xvi, 303 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blurring the boundaries : intellectual and cultural interactions between the Eastern and Western, Christian and Muslim worlds / Claire Norton -- Sharing a taste? : material acquisitions and intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century / Anna Contadini -- The Lepanto paradigm revisited : knowing the Ottomans in the sixteenth century / Palmira Brummett -- The role of the book in the transfer of culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean / Deborah Howard -- The 'Reception of the Venetian ambassadors in Damascus' : dating, meaning and attribution / Caroline Campbell -- Giacomo Gastaldi's maps of Anatolia : the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space? / Sonja Brentjes -- Turning a deaf ear / Owen Wright -- Old and new demarcation lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire : from Pope Pius II (1458-1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013) / Zweder von Martels -- Turco-Graecia : German humanists and the end of Greek antiquity -- cultural exchange and misunderstanding / Asaph Ben Tov -- Positive views of Islam and of Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century : the case of Jean Bodin / Noel Malcolm -- Binding relationships : Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance bookbindings / Alison Ohta -- Ottoman textiles in European markets / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Mehmed II as a patron of Greek philosophy : Latin and Byzantine perspectives / Anna Akasoy.

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1288-1918


Renaissance--Turkey.
Civilization.
International relations.
Renaissance.


Turkey--Civilization--1288-1918.
Turkey.
Europe--Relations--Turkey.
Empire ottoman--Civilisation.
Asie Mineure.
Europe.
Turkey.

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