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The Age of Beloveds - Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society (Hardcover, New)
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The Age of Beloveds - Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society (Hardcover, New)
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The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern
Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry.
At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels
in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe-from Istanbul
to London-during the long sixteenth century. Walter G. Andrews and
Mehmet Kalpakli provide a generous sampling of translations of
Ottoman poems, many of which have never appeared in English, along
with informative and inspired close readings. The authors explain
that the flourishing of Ottoman power and culture during the
"Turkish Renaissance" manifested itself, to some degree, as an "age
of beloveds," in which young men became the focal points for the
desire and attention of powerful officeholders and artists as well
as the inspiration for a rich literature of love.The authors show
that the "age of beloveds" was not just an Ottoman, eastern
European, or Islamic phenomenon. It extended into western Europe as
well, pervading the cultures of Venice, Florence, Rome, and London
during the same period. Andrews and Kalpakli contend that in an age
dominated by absolute rulers and troubled by war, cultural change,
and religious upheaval, the attachments of dependent courtiers and
the longings of anxious commoners aroused an intense interest in
love and the beloved. The Age of Beloveds reveals new commonalities
in the cultural history of two worlds long seen as radically
different.
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