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This Orient Isle - Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Paperback)
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This Orient Isle - Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 250
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WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN AS
HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement'
Spectator 'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding
of the Elizabethan era' Daily Telegraph In 1570, after plots and
assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated
by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and
political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again
experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the
Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped
munitions to Marrakech in the hope of establishing an accord which
would keep the common enemy of Catholic Spain at bay. This
awareness of the Islamic world found its way into many of the great
English cultural productions of the day - especially, of course,
Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice. This Orient Isle
shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more
extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated,
and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial
and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England.
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