Empires of Islam in Renaissance historical thought / Margaret Meserve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meserve, Margaret.

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Harvard historical studies ; 158.

Harvard historical studies ; 158

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Europe--History--To 1500.

Historiography.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Historiography.

Turkey.

Islamic Empire--Historiography.

Islamic Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.) : ill., map.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from-and contributed to-contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.

Contents:

Note on nomenclature

List of figures

Introduction

The rise and fall of the Trojan Turks

Barbarians at the gates

In search of the classical Turks

Translations of empire

Wise men in the east

Epilogue

Appendix: The Caspian gates

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-341) and index.

ISBN:

9780674040953

0674040953

OCLC:

1013941697