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Images of Islam, 1453-1600 - Turks in Germany and Central Europe (Hardcover)

Charlotte Colding Smith

R4,178 Discovery Miles 41 780

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Using evidence from contemporary printed images, Smith examines the attitudes of Christian Europe to the Ottoman empire and to Islam. She also considers the relationship between text and image, placing it in the cultural context of the Reformation and beyond.

Images of Islam, 1453-1600 - Turks in Germany and Central Europe (Paperback)

Charlotte Colding Smith

R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920

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This book explores sixteenth-century German attitudes during a time of social, political and religious upheaval. It focuses on how medieval and fifteenth-century images of Islam, Saracens and the early Ottoman Empire evolved in incunabula print and images within Christian Europe.