"Looking East" explores early modern English attitudes toward the
Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. To a nation just
arriving on the international scene, the Ottoman Empire was at once
the great enemy and scourge of Christendom, and at the same time
the fabulously wealthy and magnificent court from which the sultan
ruled over three continents with his great and powerful army. By
taking the imaginative, literary and poetic writing about the
Ottoman Turks and putting it alongside contemporary historical
documents, the book shows that fascination with the Ottoman Empire
shaped how the English thought about and represented their own
place within the world as a nation with increasing imperial
ambitions of its own.
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