The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Dialectics of Early Modern Orientalism

Chapter 2 A Captive Library Between Morocco and Spain

Chapter 3 Political Pragmatism, Humanist Ideals, and Early Modern Orientalism in Busbecq’s Turkish Letters

Chapter 4 Competing Forms of Knowledge in Adam Olearius’s Orientalische Reise

Chapter 5 The Discourse Regarding the Chinese and Muslim Worlds in the Hispanic Empire (New Spain and Castile, c.1550–1630)

Chapter 7 The Invention of Europe and the Intellectual Struggle for Political Imagination: Spanish Humanism on the Ottomans

Chapter 8 France, Europe, and the Orient in the Essays : Montaigne’s Dialectics

Chapter 9 Mehmed II and His Woman: The Idea of Europe in Early Modern Representations of a Female Captive

Chapter 10 Was There a Pan-European Orientalism? Icelandic and Flemish Perspectives on Captivity in Muslim North Africa (1628–1656)

Chapter 11 Christians of Ottoman Europe in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books

Chapter 12 Amazon Battle and the Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Painting Canon

Chapter 13 The Architectural Setting of “Empire”: The English Experience of Ottoman Spectacle in the Late Seventeenth Century and Its Consequences