Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe

The book series Ottomania researches the cultural transfers between the Ottoman Empire and Europe with a focus on the performing arts The confrontation between European countries and the expanding Ottoman Empire in the early modern era has played a major role in numerous fields of history. The aim of this book is to investigate the European-Ottoman interrelations from three angles. One deals with the circumstances: how did the Europeans meet the Turks in pragmatic and diplomatic connections? Another concerns imagery: how were the Turks depicted in literature and art? The third examines performativity: how were the Turks inserted into plays, operas and ceremonies? This book confronts mental, visual and embodied images with historical positions and conditions. The focus, therefore, is on the dynamic interactive processes of experience, embodiment and imagination in context. Bringing together Turkish and European scholars, it applies a number of research strategies used by historians to the history of art, literature, music and theatre.

Bent Holm, Associate Professor, Theatre Studies, Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Dramaturg and translator of plays, esp. by Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Goldoni. Publications include: "The Taming of the Turk: Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596–1896" (2014), "Ludvig Holberg, a Danish Playwright on the European Stage. Masquerade, Comedy, Satire" (2018). Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen is H. M. the Queen’s Reference Librarian at the Danish Royal Collection. He has lectured in art history and in Renaissance studies and worked in museums and libraries. His research has focussed on court artists and on European-Ottoman cultural exchange in the Early Modern era. He is co-author of Erik Fischer’s monograph on the artist Melchior Lorck (2009).

IX Kaleidoscopic Reflections Bent Holm and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen) PART I: THE ACTUAL TURK The Ottoman Empire and Europe: The Making and Un-Making of a Muslim-Orthodox Partnership Mogens Pelt (Copenhagen) The Absence of the Ottoman Empire in European Historiography Kate Fleet (Cambridge) The Legations of the Most Serene Republic to the Sultan and the Fascination of Ottoman Culture Maria Pia Pedani † (Venice) Claiming Possession through Depiction: Hungarian Humanist Envoys in the Ottoman Empire Pál Ács (Budapest) The Turks in East Central Europe, with a Focus on Hungary, the Romanian Principalities, and Poland Robert Born (Leipzig/Berlin) PART II: THE IMAGINED TURK The Image of the Turks in European Anglophone Intellectual Discourse Asli Çirakman (Ankara) Changing Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Europe and the Ottoman Empire Günsel Renda (Istanbul) Images of the Turk in Sixteenth-Century Italian Historical Writings Pia Schwarz Lausten (Copenhagen) Variations in Oriental Motifs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century European Literature Anne Duprat (Amiens) The Turk in the Symbolic Civil Wars of France: Ally and Combatant Marcus Keller (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) Shifting Identities Over Time: Images of the Turk in Sixteenth-Century German Biblical Illustrations Charlotte Colding Smith (Bremerhaven) The Truthful Image(s) of the Turk(s) Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen) PART III: THE EMBODIED TURK “Celebrating the Orient”: The Ottomans in Prints and Festivities in the Habsburg Netherlands Dirk Van Waelderen (Leuven) Turks in Royal Rituality: Apocalyptic Historiography in Performative Practice Bent Holm (Copenhagen) “Der türkische Gesandte samt sein Gefolge”: Theatre and Ottoman Diplomacy to Vienna in the Eighteenth Century Suna Suner (Vienna) Prismatic Refractions Bent Holm and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen) APPENDIX Bibliography Names Places Curricula Vitae

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