1st Edition

French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560

By Pascale Barthe Copyright 2016
180 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and the enthusiasm with which, before the age of absolutism, French kings and their subjects pursued... Read more
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Biography

Pascale Barthe is Associate Professor of French at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA. She received her Ph.D in French Language and Literature from the University of Virginia. Her areas of research focus on early modern France, Orientalism, and the Mediterranean world.

"Pascale Barthe’s study is a major contribution to our knowledge of Franco-Ottoman encounters in the early modern period."

- Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Tufts University, H-France Review