The Renaissance and the Ottoman world - Contadini, Anna; Norton, Claire, Dr. (Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013)
Blurring the boundaries : intellectual and cultural interactions between the Eastern and Western, Christian and Muslim worlds / Claire Norton -- Sharing a taste? : material acquisitions and intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century / Anna Contadini -- The Lepanto paradigm revisited : knowing the Ottomans in the sixteenth century / Palmira Brummett -- The role of the book in the transfer of culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean / Deborah Howard -- The'Reception of the Venetian ambassadors in Damascus' : dating, meaning and attribution / Caroline Campbell -- Giacomo Gastaldi's maps of Anatolia : the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space? / Sonja Brentjes -- Turning a deaf ear / Owen Wright -- Old and new demarcation lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire : from Pope Pius II (1458-1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013) / Zweder von Martels -- Turco-Graecia : German humanists and the end of Greek antiquity--cultural exchange and misunderstanding / Asaph Ben Tov -- Positive views of Islam and of Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century : the case of Jean Bodin / Noel Malcolm -- Binding relationships : Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance bookbindings / Alison Ohta -- Ottoman textiles in European markets / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Mehmed II as a patron of Greek philosophy : Latin and Byzantine perspectives / Anna Akasoy.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index.
Keywords: Renaissance -- Turkey; Turkey -- Civilization -- 1288-1918.; Turkey -- Relations -- Europe; Europe -- Relations -- Turkey