The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany /
"Although their role is often neglected in standard historical narratives of the Reformation, the Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many leading thinkers in early modern Germany, including Martin Luther. In the minds of many, the Turks formed a fearsome, crescent-shaped horizon that th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 |
| Series: | Routledge research in early modern history
Routledge research in early modern history |
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Table of Contents:
- Sixteenth-century bestsellers
- The intellectual context: Western views of Islam in the late Middle Ages
- The political context: Hapsburg-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth century
- Knowledge and depictions of Islam and the religious life of the Ottoman Turks in Reformation Germany
- Knowledge and depictions of the Turks
- Holy terror: depictions of the Islamic threat and its causes
- Holy war and its discontents: responses to the Ottoman advance
- Escaped slaves of the Turks: George of Hungary and Bartholomew Georgijevic
- Early modern transformations of the image of Islam in the West
- Sixteenth-century bestsellers
- The intellectual context: western views of Islam in the late Middle Ages
- The political context: Hapsburg-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth century
- Knowledge and depictions of Islam and the religious life of the Ottoman Turks in Reformation Germany
- Knowledge and depictions of the Turks
- Holy terror: depictions of the Islamic threat and its causes
- Holy war and its discontents: responses to the Ottoman advance
- Escaped slaves of the Turks: George of Hungary and Bartholomew Georgijevic
- Early modern transformations of the image of Islam in the west