The many shades of Ottoman Europe: colouring the Turks on Western European printed maps (from sixteenth to eighteenth century):

Mapping the Ottoman Empire was an arduous challenge for any Early Modern Western European cartographer. An "Asiatic" and Islamic polity, the Ottoman Empire was viewed as a direct and immediate threat to Christian Europe and it became its main antagonist (a ‘useful enemy’ to use Noel Malcol...

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1. Verfasser: Coman, Marian 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Mapping the Ottoman Empire was an arduous challenge for any Early Modern Western European cartographer. An "Asiatic" and Islamic polity, the Ottoman Empire was viewed as a direct and immediate threat to Christian Europe and it became its main antagonist (a ‘useful enemy’ to use Noel Malcolm’s words). As a result, its cartographic representations ranged from straightforward martial rejection (the Theatrum Belli maps) to tacit acceptance (the Turkey d’Europe maps), with an impressive variety in-between. The continuously shifting borders between Ottoman and Christian Europe complicated even further the cartographers’ task. A map-maker could choose to up-date meticulously the expanding or contracting limits of the Ottoman Empire or, on the contrary, to overlook the current frontiers, either referring to a certain moment in the past or anticipating the forthcoming Christians’ triumphs. So far scholarship has focused mostly on the variety of cartographic templates and on iconography, while largely neglecting the use of colours. My contribution aims to address this absence and to investigate the meaning and functions of colours in the European mapmaking of the Ottoman Empire, from sixteenth to eighteenth century.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:978-90-04-46736-1
DOI:10.1163/9789004467361_007

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