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Author Contadini, Anna

Title The Renaissance and the Ottoman World
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Notes on Contributors; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Section I Commercial, Artistic and Cultural Contexts; Chapter 1 Blurring the Boundaries: Intellectual and Cultural Interactions between the Eastern and Western; Christian and Muslim Worlds; Chapter 2 Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 3 The Lepanto Paradigm Revisited: Knowing the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century
Section II Texts, Art and Music as Media for the Transmission of Intercultural InfluencesChapter 4 The Role of the Book in the Transfer of Culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean; Chapter 5 The 'Reception of the Venetian Ambassadors in Damascus': Dating, Meaning and Attribution; Chapter 6 Giacomo Gastaldi's Maps of Anatolia: The Evolution of a Shared Venetian-Ottoman Cultural Space?; Chapter 7 Turning a Deaf Ear; Section III Renaissance Thought
Chapter 8 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)Chapter 9 Turco-Graecia: German Humanists and the End of Greek Antiquity -- Cultural Exchange and Misunderstanding; Chapter 10 Positive Views of Islam and of Ottoman Rule in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Jean Bodin; Section IV The Renaissance and the Ottoman Empire; Chapter 11 Binding Relationships: Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance Book-Bindings; Chapter 12 Ottoman Textiles in European Markets
Chapter 13 Mehmed II as a Patron of Greek Philosophy: Latin and Byzantine PerspectivesBibliography; Index; Plates
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Form Electronic book
Author Norton, Claire
ISBN 9781351883016
1351883011