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Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature,
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter
between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and
religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy,
even sinister, travellers came to know them in their many and
diverse communities with rich traditions and intriguing
life-styles. The Jew of the imagination encountered the Jew of town
and village, in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant.
Coming from an England riven by religious disputes and often by
political unrest, travellers brought their own questions about
identity, national character, religious belief and the quality of
human relations to their encounter with 'the scattered nation'.
Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature,
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter
between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and
religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy,
even sinister, travellers came to know them in their many and
diverse communities with rich traditions and intriguing
life-styles. The Jew of the imagination encountered the Jew of town
and village, in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant.
Coming from an England riven by religious disputes and often by
political unrest, travellers brought their own questions about
identity, national character, religious belief and the quality of
human relations to their encounter with 'the scattered nation'.
British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the
seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’,
yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book
provides the first historical account of how British travellers
understood the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman
lands, and of how they perceived and described them in the
mediating shadow of the Turks. In doing so it changes our
perceptions of the European encounter with the Ottomans by
exploring the complex identities of the subjects of the Ottoman
empire in the English imagination, de-centering the image of the
‘Terrible Turk’ and Islam.
British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the
seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as 'slaves of the sultan', yet
they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides
the first historical account of how British travellers understood
the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of
how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of
the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European
encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of
the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination,
de-centering the image of the 'Terrible Turk' and Islam.
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