1st Edition
Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630
Introduction: Constantinople as a Centre of Diplomatic Culture
Tracey A. Sowerby and Christopher Markiewicz
1. Persian Secretaries in the Making of an Anti-Safavid Diplomatic Discourse
Christopher Markiewicz
2. Languages of Diplomatic Gift-Giving at the Ottoman Court
Christopher Markiewicz and Tracey A. Sowerby
3. Art and Diplomacy: Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s 1533 Journey to Constantinople
Talitha Maria G. Schepers
4. Beyond Topkapı: Ottoman Diplomacy Through Venetian Eyes
Maxwell Hudson
5. The Foundation of Peace Oriented Foreign Policy in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Rüstem Pasha’s Vision of Diplomacy
Zahit Atçıl
6. The Benefits and Limits of Permanent Diplomacy: Austrian Habsburg Ambassadors and Ottoman-Spanish Diplomacy in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Aneliya Stoyanova
7. Without ‘conformitie of companie’: English Religious Identity and the Diplomatic Corps in Constantinople, 1578–97
Daniel J. Bamford
8. The Trick and Traps of ad hoc Diplomacy: Polish Ambassadors’ Experiences of Ottoman Hospitality
Tetiana Grygorieva
9. Sociability and Ceremony: Diplomats at the Porte c.1550–1632
Tracey A. Sowerby
Biography
Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford) is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (2010), and co-editor of Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 (2017) and Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (2019).
Christopher Markiewicz is a lecturer in Ottoman and Islamic history at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty (2019).
