ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition with full number line. Fine book in near fine DJ. Tight and square binding, unmarked pages.
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ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR] Hardcover Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity.
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ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover "Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity."-James Hankins, Harvard University Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 625. . 2004. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition.
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ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. 04.05.2004.] Hardcover 309 Seiten / p. sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories, ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks, epic poetry, and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers played in shaping Western views of self and other. -- Medieval concepts of Islam were generally informed and constrained by religious attitudes and rhetoric in which Muslims were depicted as enemies of the faith. While humanist thinkers of the Renaissance did not move entirely beyond this stance, Creating East and West argues that their understanding was considerably more complex, in that it addressed secular and cultural issues, marking a watershed between the medieval and modern. Taking a close look at a number of texts, Bisaha expands current notions of ...
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ISBN10: 0812238060, ISBN13: 9780812238068, [publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published
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