...E. Natalie Rothman This study explores how Venetian and Ottoman elites rearticulated religious and linguistic boundaries in a process that spanned both metropoles and their Dalmatian borderlands. It focuses on the case of a teenage daughter of an Ottoman-Bosnian governor, who in 1622 left her...

...Jonathan Burton © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-06-Burton.125-156 12/21/99 4:34 PM Page 125 a Anglo-Ottoman Relations and the Image of the Turk in Tamburlaine...

... have a particular vision of the Mediterranean, one which focuses on the eastern end of the sea and privileges its own set of hegemons.4 Despite the rhetorical claims of the Ottoman sultans to be lords of the two seas, the “Black” and the “White” (Mediterranean), I do not tend to think...

... of the Turks], a manuscript in the Marciana library in Venice that consists of sixty- two miniatures of Ottoman costumes (see figs. 1 – 2, and 12, 14, 18 below).1 Although painted by an Ottoman artist, the vestments are identified by Ital- ian captions, indicating the manuscript was produced for a foreign...

... chain is inorganic, a showy artifact, yet almost immaterial, having no effect on the water below; and 1453 is such a marker, dividing the surface of history, without disturbing its flow, into inconsistent temporalities. For if the Renaissance begins there, the Ottomans must be instruments...

... and credit systems pioneered in the northern Italian city-states. But the maritime power of the Italians was on the wane during the sixteenth cen- tury. Venice, in particular, was locked in a struggle with the Ottomans and was gradually losing its island empire. By the late 1570s, conflict with Spain...

... point here is that while it is not feasible for every scholar of premodern English literature to become deeply and widely familiar with Ottoman or Arabic texts, it is pos- sible for everyone conceptually to cross Eurocentric boundaries. In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said argued...

...–1582: A Documentary Study of the First Anglo-Ottoman Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1977); Maria Fusaro, “Co-operating Mercantile Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” Economic History Review 65, no. 2 (2012): 701–18; Nil Pektas, “The First Greek Printing...

... rich, whom they served as lackeys, ornaments, and curiosities, markers of status as much as sources of labor.7 This fragile equilibrium would shift drastically after the middle of the fifteenth century, as the new empires of Spain and Ottoman Turkey completed the consolidation...

... study of the imperial Ottoman period indicates that from the mid–fifteenth century onward it was a strategy designed to exclude the mother’s family from competing dynas- tic claims and identities.26 From 750 until the early eleventh century, all but three of the Abbasid caliphs were born to slaves...

.... paper [Selection of Psellos’s rhetorical and aesthetic writings in English translation.] Rycaut, Paul, Sir. The Present State of the Ottoman Empire: Sixth Edition, Edited by John Anthony Butler. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

... the Byzantine emperor was the father-in-law of a future Ottoman sultan, and in which the Mamluk ruler of Egypt reimbursed Christian merchants for the fees they expended on papal indulgences.11 Rereading Alatiel in this frame is our way of revivifying “voices that have been lost, obliterated, or heavily...

... Studies / 38.1 / 2008 against the Muslim Infidel. Dating back to the period of the First Crusade, it acquired renewed urgency during periods of Ottoman expansion in the East and heretical preaching in the West. Mattingly bases his account of medieval diplomatic theory primarily on Bernard Du Rosier...

... Scriptures  545 – 76 Rothman, E. Natalie Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-­Ottoman Borderlands  602 – 33 Saltzman, Benjamin A. Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-­Saxon Rules of Confraternity  251 – 91 Test, Edward M. “A dish fit for the gods”: Mexica...

... historians, particularly those using some form of world systems theory. She comes down firmly in favor of a fragmented view of the Mediterranean. Herself an Ottoman historian, she is particularly concerned about the place of the Ottoman Empire in Mediter- ranean history in relation to periods...

... of Cippico’s eyewitness account of the Christian-­Ottoman maritime confrontation in the late fifteenth century.] Crawford, Jackson, trans. and ed. The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, 2015. xxiv, 366 pp. $49.00, paper $16.00. Elgrably...

..., 565 pp.; 19 illus. $49.95. Piterberg, Gabriel. An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, vol. 50. Berkeley: Univer- sity of California Press, 2003. xv, 256 pp. $60.00. Rohrbacher, David. The Historians of Late Antiquity. London...

... chronological and geographical range, from the eleventh to the early seventeenth centuries with attention to Iberian, Italian, Ottoman, and North African developments. Submissions should look at some of the ways in which religious identities were formed in this period, attending to such problems...

... religions from a broad chronological and geographical range, from the eleventh to the early seventeenth century with attention to Iberian, Italian, Ottoman, and North African developments. Submissions should look at some of the ways in which religious identities were formed in this period, attending...

... of reforming measures put forward to Edward III. Middle English text followed by modern English translation.] Çelebi, Kātib. An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of “Cihānnümā.” Edited by Gottfried Hagen and Robert Dankoff. Translated by Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry, and Gary Leiser. Handbook of Oriental...