Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630

Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford) is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (2010), and co-editor of Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 (2017) and Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (2019). Christopher Markiewicz is a lecturer in Ottoman and Islamic history at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty (2019).

Introduction: Constantinople as a Centre of Diplomatic Culture 1 Persian Secretaries in the Making of an Anti-Safavid Diplomatic Discourse 2 Languages of Diplomatic Gift-Giving at the Ottoman Court 3 Art and Diplomacy: Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s 1533 Journey to Constantinople 4 Beyond Topkapı: Ottoman Diplomacy Through Venetian Eyes 5 The Foundation of Peace Oriented Foreign Policy in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Rüstem Pasha’s Vision of Diplomacy 6 The Benefits and Limits of Permanent Diplomacy: Austrian Habsburg Ambassadors and Ottoman-Spanish Diplomacy in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 7 Without ‘conformitie of companie’: English Religious Identity and the Diplomatic Corps in Constantinople, 1578–97 8 The Trick and Traps of ad hoc Diplomacy: Polish Ambassadors’ Experiences of Ottoman Hospitality 9 Sociability and Ceremony: Diplomats at the Porte c.1550–1632