The Birth of the Despot

副标题: Venice and the Sublime Porte

ISBN: 9780801424809

出版社: Cornell University Press

出版年: 1993-10

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of oriental despotism. this book examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists--Venice and the Sublime Porte--face to face.