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Buy a digital subscription Go to the Digital EditionThe fourteen articles in this volume bring together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. The articles contribute to an exciting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarly dialogue that explores elements of continuity and exchange between the two areas, and positions the Ottoman Empire as an integral element of the geo-political and cultural continuum within which the Renaissance evolved.
Section I Commercial, Artistic and Cultural Contexts:
Blurring the boundaries: intellectual and cultural
interactions between the Eastern and Western: Christian and
Muslim worlds, Claire Norton; Sharing a taste? Material culture and
intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean from the 11th to
the 16th century, Anna Contadini; The Lepanto paradigm revisited:
knowing the Ottomans in the 16th century, Palmira Brummett.
Section II Texts, Art and Music as Media for the Transmission of
Intercultural Influences:
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.
Section III Renaissance Thought:
Old and new demarcation lines
between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire: from
Pope Pius II (1458–1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005–13),
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
16th century: the case of Jean Bodin, Noel Malcolm.
Section IV The Renaissance and the Ottoman Empire:
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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