Download PDF by Pascale Barthe: French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560

targeting early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman kinfolk, this publication fills a niche in experiences of Ottoman representations by way of early glossy ecu powers through addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the beginning of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and the keenness with which, earlier than the age of absolutism, French kings and their topics pursued exchanges-real or imagined-with these they often called the 'Turks.' Barthe calls into query the life of an Orientalist discourse within the Renaissance, and examines early cross-cultural kinfolk in the course of the lenses of sixteenth-century French literary and cultural construction. knowledgeable by way of insights from historians, literary students, and artwork historians from around the globe, this examine underscores and demanding situations long-standing dichotomies (Christians vs. Muslims, West vs. East) in addition to reductive periodizations (Middle a while vs. Renaissance) and compartmentalization of disciplines. Grounded in shut readings, it comprises discussions of cultural creation, particularly visible representations of house and customs. Barthe showcases diplomatic envoys, courtly poets, 'bourgeois', favourite fiction writers, and chroniclers, who all engaged eagerly with the 'Turks' and constructed a multiplicity of responses to the Ottomans ahead of the latter turned either stylish and neutralized, and their illustration fixed.