Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe (eBook)

Bent Holm, born in 1946. MA, Phil.Doc. Associate Professor, Theatre Studies, Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Research travels to Italy, France, and India. Dramaturg and translator of plays, especially by Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Goldoni. Doctoral dissertation about Comédie Italienne in a broad cultural/religious/iconographic context. Has published interdisciplinary studies on historical and dramaturgical issues in English, French, Polish, and Italian. Is for the moment preparing the English version of his book about eighteenth-century playwright Ludvig Holberg in a dramaturgical-historical perspective. Special research focuses are on relationships between visual arts and theatre; drama analysis and creative theatre production; theatricality and rituality. Lecturer at several international universities and research centres, most recently in Torino, Paris, Frankfurt, and Stockholm. Member of scientific committees and networks in Paris, Mantova, and Torino, among other cities. Publications include: "The Taming of the Turk: Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596–1896". Vienna: Hollitzer, 2014 (= Ottomania 2). Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, M.A., PhD. HM the Queen's Reference Librarian at the Danish Royal Collection. Former employments at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, The Museum of National History in Hillerød and The Danish National Art Library. Lecturer in art history and renaissance studies at Copenhagen University. Has published on royal portraiture, court artists, and European-Ottoman cultural exchange in the Early Modern era, in particular focusing on the Danish renaissance artist Melchior Lorck.

IX Kaleidoscopic Reflections
Bent Holm and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen)

PART I: THE ACTUAL TURK

The Ottoman Empire and Europe: The Making and Un-Making
of a Muslim-Orthodox Partnership
Mogens Pelt (Copenhagen)

The Absence of the Ottoman Empire in European Historiography
Kate Fleet (Cambridge)

The Legations of the Most Serene Republic to the Sultan and the
Fascination of Ottoman Culture
Maria Pia Pedani † (Venice)

Claiming Possession through Depiction: Hungarian Humanist Envoys
in the Ottoman Empire
Pál Ács (Budapest)

The Turks in East Central Europe, with a Focus on Hungary,
the Romanian Principalities, and Poland
Robert Born (Leipzig/Berlin)


PART II: THE IMAGINED TURK

The Image of the Turks in European Anglophone Intellectual Discourse
Aslı Çırakman (Ankara)

Changing Images and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Europe and the
Ottoman Empire
Günsel Renda (Istanbul)

Images of the Turk in Sixteenth-Century Italian Historical Writings
Pia Schwarz Lausten (Copenhagen)

Variations in Oriental Motifs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
European Literature
Anne Duprat (Amiens)

The Turk in the Symbolic Civil Wars of France: Ally and Combatant
Marcus Keller (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois)

Shifting Identities Over Time: Images of the Turk in Sixteenth-Century
German Biblical Illustrations
Charlotte Colding Smith (Bremerhaven)

The Truthful Image(s) of the Turk(s)
Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen)


PART III: THE EMBODIED TURK

"Celebrating the Orient": The Ottomans in Prints
and Festivities
in the Habsburg Netherlands
Dirk Van Waelderen (Leuven)

Turks in Royal Rituality: Apocalyptic Historiography
in Performative Practice
Bent Holm (Copenhagen)

"Der türkische Gesandte samt sein Gefolge": Theatre and
Ottoman Diplomacy to Vienna in the Eighteenth Century
Suna Suner (Vienna)

Prismatic Refractions
Bent Holm and Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen)


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