1st Edition

The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany

By Gregory J. Miller Copyright 2018
268 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Although their role is often neglected in standard historical narratives of the Reformation, the Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many leading thinkers in early modern Germany, including Martin Luther. In the minds of many, the Turks formed a fearsome, crescent-shaped horizon that threatened to break through and overwhelm. Based on an analysis of more than 300 pamphlets and other... Read more

1. Sixteenth-Century Bestsellers

2. The Intellectual Context: Western Views of Islam in the Late Middle Ages

3. The Political Context: Hapsburg-Ottoman Relations in the Sixteenth Century

4. Knowledge and Depictions of Islam and the Religious Life of the Ottoman Turks in Reformation Germany

5. Knowledge and Depictions of the Turks

6. Holy Terror: Depictions of the Islamic Threat and Its Causes

7. Holy War and Its Discontents: Responses to the Ottoman Advance

8. Escaped Slaves of the Turks: George of Hungary and Bartholomew Georgijevic

9. Early Modern Transformations of the Image of Islam in the West

Biography

Gregory J. Miller is Professor of History at Malone University.