Using evidence from contemporary printed images, Smith examines the attitudes of Christian Europe to the Ottoman Empire and to Islam. She also considers the relationship between text and image, placing it in the cultural context of the Reformation and beyond.
Introduction
1 Early Images of the Turk and the Ottoman Empire, 14531520
2 Military Images of the Turk and the Conflicts of the Sixteenth Century
3 Biblical Images of the Turk: The Apocalyptic and the Exotic
4 Travellers' Tales and Images of the Ottoman Empire and Court of Constantinople
5 Ottoman Dress in Sixteenth-Century German Printed Costume Books
6 Genealogies, Histories, Cosmographies: Encyclopaedic Images of the Turk
Conclusion
Charlotte Colding Smith has highlighted the particular views and depictions of the Ottoman Turk present in German material of the sixteenth century. Thus, by localizing her study, isolating a wide range of German-language texts and the images that accompanied them, and subjecting them to close analysis, she has made a thought-provoking and worthwhile contribution to an ever-expanding historiography.
- Christopher Nicholson, Independent Scholar, London, UK in Islam and ChristianMuslim Relations, 2015
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