Introduction [2-s2.0-84928419728]

dc.authorscopusid36489491400
dc.contributor.authorFaroqhi, S.N.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:16:52Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:16:52Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractOf the Ottoman Empire we can say what Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) once wrote about the seventeenth-century military commander and entrepreneur Albrecht von Wallenstein (in Czech, Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna, 1583–1634). According to Schiller’s verse, the favour and hate of [conflicting] parties had caused confusion, producing a highly variable image of Wallenstein’s character in history. Put differently, it was the diverging perspectives of the beholders that gave rise to this instability. Admittedly, being a poet, Schiller made his point far more concisely than the present author is able to do. In certain traditions of historiography in the Balkans and elsewhere as well, denigrating the Ottoman Empire and making it responsible for all manner of “backwardness” is still widespread, although challenges to this view have been mounting during the last 30 years. On the other hand, romanticising the images of Mehmed the Conqueror (r. 1451–81) or Süleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66) is also quite a popular enterprise: witness the statue of Mehmed II in downtown Istanbul – a new one is in the planning stage – and the double monument to Zrínyi Miklós and Sultan Süleyman in a park of Szigetvar, Hungary. © Cambridge University Press 2013.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/CHO9781139049047.004
dc.identifier.endpage16en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781139049047
dc.identifier.isbn9780521620949
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84928419728en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139049047.004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6305
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 2: The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKitap Bölümü - Uluslararasıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleIntroduction [2-s2.0-84928419728]
dc.typeBook Chapter

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