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Creating East and West
Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks
Buch von Nancy Bisaha
Sprache: Englisch

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"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity."--James Hankins, Harvard University

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories, ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks, epic poetry, and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers played in shaping Western views of self and other.

Medieval concepts of Islam were generally informed and constrained by religious attitudes and rhetoric in which Muslims were depicted as enemies of the faith. While humanist thinkers of the Renaissance did not move entirely beyond this stance, Creating East and West argues that their understanding was considerably more complex, in that it addressed secular and cultural issues, marking a watershed between the medieval and modern. Taking a close look at a number of texts, Bisaha expands current notions of Renaissance humanism and of the history of cross-cultural perceptions. Engaging both traditional methods of intellectual history and more recent methods of cross-cultural studies, she demonstrates that modern attitudes of Western societies toward other cultures emerged not during the later period of expansion and domination but rather as a defensive intellectual reaction to a sophisticated and threatening power to the East.

Nancy Bisaha teaches history at Vassar College.
"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity."--James Hankins, Harvard University

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories, ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks, epic poetry, and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers played in shaping Western views of self and other.

Medieval concepts of Islam were generally informed and constrained by religious attitudes and rhetoric in which Muslims were depicted as enemies of the faith. While humanist thinkers of the Renaissance did not move entirely beyond this stance, Creating East and West argues that their understanding was considerably more complex, in that it addressed secular and cultural issues, marking a watershed between the medieval and modern. Taking a close look at a number of texts, Bisaha expands current notions of Renaissance humanism and of the history of cross-cultural perceptions. Engaging both traditional methods of intellectual history and more recent methods of cross-cultural studies, she demonstrates that modern attitudes of Western societies toward other cultures emerged not during the later period of expansion and domination but rather as a defensive intellectual reaction to a sophisticated and threatening power to the East.

Nancy Bisaha teaches history at Vassar College.
Über den Autor
Nancy Bisaha is Associate Professor of History at Vassar College.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences

Chapter 2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the Turks in Classical Terms

Chapter 3. Straddling East and west: Byzantium and Greek Refugees

Chapter 4. Religious Influences and Interpretations

Epilogue: The Renaissance Legacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780812238068
ISBN-10: 0812238060
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bisaha, Nancy
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 236 x 164 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Nancy Bisaha
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2004
Gewicht: 0,617 kg
Artikel-ID: 132528337
Über den Autor
Nancy Bisaha is Associate Professor of History at Vassar College.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences

Chapter 2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the Turks in Classical Terms

Chapter 3. Straddling East and west: Byzantium and Greek Refugees

Chapter 4. Religious Influences and Interpretations

Epilogue: The Renaissance Legacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780812238068
ISBN-10: 0812238060
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bisaha, Nancy
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 236 x 164 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Nancy Bisaha
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2004
Gewicht: 0,617 kg
Artikel-ID: 132528337
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