Creating East and West : Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks.
Title:
Creating East and West : Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks.
Author:
Bisaha, Nancy.
ISBN:
9780812201291
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- TIME LINE OF KEY EVENTS IN THE OTTOMAN ADVANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRUSADE AND CHARLEMAGNE: MEDIEVAL INFLUENCES -- 2. THE NEW BARBARIAN: REDEFINING THE TURKS IN CLASSICAL TERMS -- 3. STRADDLING EAST AND WEST: BYZANTIUM AND GREEK REFUGEES -- 4. RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES AND INTERPRETATIONS -- EPILOGUE: THE RENAISSANCE LEGACY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Abstract:
"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity."-James Hankins, Harvard University.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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