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Title Practices of coexistence : constructions of the other in early modern perceptions / edited by Marianna D. Birnbaum and Marcell Sebok
Published New York : Central European University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction / Marianna D. Birnbaum and Marcell Sebok -- The good fowler as a world conqueror : images of Suleyman the Magnificent in early modern Hungarian literary practice / Ágnes Drosztmer -- Repercussions of a murder : the death of Sehzade Mustafa on the early modern English stage / Seda Erkoç -- Constructing a self-image in the image of the other : Pope Pius II's letter to Sultan Mehmed II / Özden Merçan -- Topography of a society : Muslims, dwellers, and customs of Algiers in Antonio de Sosa's Topographia, e Historia General de Argel / Johanna Tóth -- The Ragusan image of Venice and the Venetian image of Ragusa in the early modern period / Lovro Kuncevic -- All Moldavian eyes on Ottomans : perceptions and representations at the end of the fifteenth century / Teodora Artimon
Summary The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the ongoing debate concerning the "image of the Other" in the early modern period. They deal with images, representations, projections, and perceptions, based on various experiences of coexistence. Although the individual contributions contain sources and references of iconography, this is not just another volume of art history or visual studies. As examples of practices in diverse historical contexts, the book includes a variety of textual material, such as literary productions, rhetorical exercises, dramatic applications, chronicle
Analysis Art History, Early modern Europe, Ethnology, History, Hungary, Moldova, Ottoman Empire, Renaissance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Renaissance -- Sources.
East and West -- History -- Sources
Other (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in art.
Ethnicity -- History -- Sources
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- History -- Sources
Cultural relations -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century.
Cultural relations
East and West
Ethnicity
International relations
Other (Philosophy) in art
Other (Philosophy) in literature
Renaissance
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
SUBJECT Europe -- Relations -- Middle East -- Sources
Middle East -- Relations -- Europe -- Sources
Subject Europe
Middle East
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Sebők, Marcell, editor
Birnbaum, Marianna D., editor
ISBN 9789633861882
9633861888