Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant

MacLean, Gerald

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“…The success of this detailed account of English diplomatic and economic activities overseas demonstrates that early modern readers were interested in reading about England's place in the world, especially after the 1588 victory which seemed to confirm England's legitimate status as a Protestant empire. 202 This interest in travel literature depicting English interactions with foreign and sometimes antagonist empires like the Spanish, Portuguese, French or Ottoman ones has been described by several researchers as part of an "imperial envy", 203 that "produced both emulation and disavowal". 204 For example, by publishing the diplomatic correspondences between Elizabeth and foreign monarchs such as Murad III and Safiye, Hakluyt presents England as an equal to these Eastern empires and Elizabeth I, the Queen of a remote island waging war against its European neighbours, appears on an equal footing with the Ottoman Sultan.…”

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“…Sixteenthand seventeenth-century Englishmen and women writers became aware that "personal and national desires and identities were no longer constructed only from within the local, the familiar, and the traditional, but increasingly became inseparably connected to the global, the strange, the alien". 7 As a consequence, the early modern period saw the rise of a variety of productions, either in iconography, on the page or on the stage, which acknowledged English involvements in the East by portraying cross-cultural encounters, alliances and marriages between Englishmen and Eastern women.…”

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The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England’s Relationship with the East during the Early Modern Period (1570 – 1673)

Alazraki¹

2022

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The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England's Relationship with the Ea... Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare , Ressources et prix du mémoire 1 Western male's gaze on Oriental women. Through this comparative study, I hope to show that the imperialist and orientalist prejudices of the British Empire in the nineteenth century had only just started to emerge in the English imagination of the time. Consequently, Said's argument, when applied to the early days of English incursions into the East, fails to take into account the ways English actors and writers acknowledged these women's individual influence and agency. The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England's Relationship with the Ea... Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare , Ressources et prix du mémoire The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England's Relationship with the Ea... Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare , Ressources et prix du mémoire The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England's Relationship with the Ea... Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare , Ressources et prix du mémoire 9My first case study is Sultana Safiye (c. 1550-1605), the wife of Murad III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1595, and the mother of Mehmed III, Sultan from 1595 to 1603. Contemporary records identify Safiye as a native of Albania, brought to the harem at age thirteen, probably after being kidnapped and sold as a slave, as was the case for most of the non-Ottoman concubines in the palace. 9 Safiye was the Ottoman name she was given upon her conversion to Islam and her real name is still unknown today. 10 Safiye was a very influential figure in Constantinople: she was Murad's favorite concubine and mother to his heir, which gave her a preferential position as hasseki, and when her son Mehmed took the throne, she became known as valide Sultan, that is to say Queen Mother and head of the royal harem. 11 Thanks to these privileged positions, Safiye also played a part in Ottoman foreign affairs and she was solicited by English ambassadors in Constantinople during the early years of Anglo-Ottoman diplomatic relationships. Though Safiye never became Murad's wife and remained a concubine all her life, the fact that English agents in the Levant called her "Sultana" highlights her image in England as a powerful figure close to a queen. Most notably, Safiye kept a correspondence with Elizabeth I from 1593 to 1599 and exchanged gifts with the English Queen on several occasions. Though there are no copies of Elizabeth's letters to the Sultana, three letters written by Safiye have been found today, the first one of which became widely known in early modern England when it was published in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1598-1600). Safiye and Elizabeth's correspondence gives us an example of two powerful women corresponding between East and West, raising the question of the role of female friendship in foreign diplomacy, a subject that is only recently coming into light in gender stu...

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2022

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“…De esta manera, el turco es a la vez radicalmente otro (bárbaro, violento, decadente) y fundamentalmente humano, piadoso y asimilable a la propia identidad cristiana. Más allá de la compleja y ambivalente visión del turco que encontramos en la obra de Erasmo, la emergencia amenazante del imperio otomano como un poder expansivo e indetenible causaba tanta curiosidad cuanto ansiedad, tanto interés cuanto temor, tanta envidia cuanto sobrecogimiento (MacLean, 2001y Hampton, 1993. Algunas de esas actitudes aparecen en los dibujos y pinturas que produjo Gentile Bellini cuando fue enviado, en 1479, por el Senado veneciano a la capital del imperio otomano, mientras que en Inglaterra y Francia, desde ese momento y hasta entrado el siglo XVII, relatos diversos de encuentros con musulmanes aparecían en el teatro, la literatura e incluso en tratados religiosos.…”

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Imagen, representación y vías de acceso al pasado

Kwiatkowski

2012

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Este artículo aborda la cuestión de la relevancia de las representaciones, en particular de las imágenes, para la investigación historiográfica. Indaga asimismo las fuentes del poder de las representaciones, su polisemia y los fundamentos de su carga emocional. A partir de un estudio de caso, propone observar las posibles relaciones entre las características mismas de las representaciones, que desde su origen las convierten en importantes exponentes de las relaciones sociales de fuerza, y su posible uso por parte de los historiadores para aproximarse a las sociedades del pasado.

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“…'When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes home', Gerald MacLean has noted, a peculiarly British form of neo-colonial occupation becomes evident: the one being practiced whenever visitors cannot help but imagine themselves agents while in Turkey, eager to find parts to play in the great game of European diplomacy. 64 MacLean posits that the ideal model for the pioneering traveller into the Levant at which Lady Montagu aimed was 'an informed adventurer going somewhere for the first time and with a mission.' 65 And though comparisons between Barton and Lady Montagu may at first seem unlikely, this is the very same model that tempted Barton into Hungary, and necessitated his writing as an argument for and defence of his conduct.…”

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Edward Barton in Hungary: Arguments for travel as diplomatic service

Kowalczyk

2019

Renaissance Studies

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This article examines the correspondence of the second English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Edward Barton (1562/3–98), pertaining to his controversial voyage into Hungary as part of Sultan Mehmed III's army in 1596. Barton travelled without prior permission from Queen Elizabeth I, prompting her anger that a Christian representative of England should travel as an active participant of an invading Muslim army. This article shows how Barton's writing constructed his involvement in the voyage not only as an important and desirable opportunity, but further as a transgressive travel experience which was essential to the development of a model of ambassadorial conduct which had to evolve to meet the new challenges of facilitating cross‐cultural diplomatic alliances. Prioritising rhetoric which rehearsed arguments that experiential travel knowledge was an essential and unique source of information, Barton attempted to shape the reception of his actions by relating his position in carefully constructed written accounts. This hitherto unexplored approach to Barton's correspondence allows us a deeper understanding of the extent to which his writing, as well as his actions, pioneered a new model of cross‐cultural diplomacy at a crucial point for Elizabethan ‘foreign policy’.

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Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant

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The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England’s Relationship with the East during the Early Modern Period (1570 – 1673)

The Influence of Powerful Eastern Women in England’s Relationship with the East during the Early Modern Period (1570 – 1673)

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Edward Barton in Hungary: Arguments for travel as diplomatic service

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