Empires of Islam in Renaissance historical thought /

Meserve, Margaret.

Empires of Islam in Renaissance historical thought / Margaret Meserve. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations, map - Harvard historical studies ; 158 . - Harvard historical studies ; v. 158. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-341) and index.

Note on nomenclature -- List of figures -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of the Trojan Turks -- Barbarians at the gates -- In search of the classical Turks -- Translations of empire -- Wise men in the east -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Caspian gates -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from--and contributed to--contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.


In English.

9780674040953 (electronic bk.) 0674040953 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)

10.4159/9780674040953 doi

22573/ctvjj25h4 JSTOR




To 1918


Historiography--History--Europe--To 1500.
HISTORY--General.
HISTORY--General.--Europe
Historiography.


Turkey--History--Historiography.--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Islamic Empire--Historiography.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Empire ottoman--Histoire.
Empire islamique--Historiographie.
Europe.
Islamic Empire.
Turkey.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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