.... The argument that the topic was fashionable in 1670 is true as far as it goes, but it does not go very far. 5 In Racine's political model, the Ottoman empire acts as a latter-day equivalent of the Rome of the first century C.E., which is to say the same topic that had furnished him with the plots...

..., moros and judios held different positions in the lexicons of heresy and offered separate lessons for wayward Andeans. The Ottomans were a political force to be reckoned with, while Jews were not, and this helps explain the different fates of Jewish and Muslim conversos in Spanish heretical politics...

... from the Ottoman empire celebrated here was not won by the Greeks, but ended only after the decisive intervention by Europe in the conflict. Victory was consolidated by the Conference of London which established Greece as a kingdom independent of the Ottomans, and then immediately placed it under...

... commentators have noted that while the Regency of Algiers may have had a political identity within the Ottoman Empire, "Algeria" did not have a national identity prior to colonization and that the territorial borders of present-day Algeria are those of the French colony. How, given these facts, is it possible...

... duree, Djebar explored the entire span of Algeria'S history, from its centuries as a province of the Libyan, Punic, Roman, and Ottoman empires to its 130-year life as a French colony, its fiercely contested independence from France, and its tragic fall into violence in the 1990s. Her novels also call...

... them Chateaubriand) has insisted upon the play of light and color that makes it a true gate of Asia, threshold of another world. It takes Hugo to transpose this consecrated theme into a nocturnal key. As if suspended in the sky entre !es feux du cie! et !es reflets de !'ande, the Ottoman capital...

... structures and through outward analy­sis of the Eur­ o­pean situation, or through tracing out a configuration of the g­ reat Eur­o­pean powers (E­ ngland, Russ­ia, and Austria). The author hails the Greek Wars of In­de­pend­ ence fought against the Ottoman Empire in 1820 as a world-­historical event...

... tandis que la liberte va de pair avec la noblesse d'action. A propos de Bajazet (ou Ie mot "esclave" apparait de maniere la plus frequente), Elmarsafy s'interroge sur la survie, voire la prosperite d'un etat si servile et si exempt de vertu, l'empire ottoman. Racine predit et met en scene dans cette...

... Pharmacopalam 17 En premier lieu Castela parait moins soucieux des genres que Ie jesuite, moins inquiete par les nouvelles sciences du voyage, et plus alerte au danger aque court Ie pelerin qui se mettrait ecrire. C'est un danger, suggere-t-il d'abord, qui viendrait des autorites ottomanes: Ceux qui s~avent...

... theorizes in De fa poesie dramatique. The model for this new genre is classical Greek and Latin theater. But for Diderot 3. For a discussion of the British version of the Grand Tour, see Jeremy Black. 4. Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and an avid...

... inventer l'orient et il dispose cet effet de deux tresors inegalables. II a une experience personnelle des territoires de l'empire ottoman, de sa geographie intime et de son humanite variee: ail a accompagne Ie puissant ambassadeur de France Constantinople, il a aussi voyage dans des conditions modestes...

... gouverneur de la forteresse, lieutenant du Palphi, me les mena voir es dittes prisons et me feit parler bien demie heure durant avec un Bekes prisonnier, qui parloit fort bien Italien, duquel j'apprins plusieurs choses touchant leurs affaires49. L'His toire des Ottomans sera Ie fruit de cette civile...