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" Creating East and West : "
Nancy Bisaha
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BL
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635899
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Bisaha, Nancy
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Creating East and West : : Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks /\ Nancy Bisaha
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309 pages :: map ;; 24 cm
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0812238060
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: 9780812238068
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-299) and index
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Crusade and Charlemagne: medieval influences -- The new barbarian: redefining the Turks in classical terms -- Straddling East and West: Byzantium and Greek refugees -- Religious influences and interpretations -- The Renaissance legacy
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"As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories, ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks, epic poetry, and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers played in shaping Western views of self and other."--Jacket
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East and West
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Humanists
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Oriente y Occidente
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Humanistas
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Turkey, History, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
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956.1/0151/004
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CB251.B57 2004
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