ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the story of the rise and fall of the Ottomans in Renaissance France. Religious heterogeneity and consolidation of absolutism coincided with a rapidly evolving French society marked by the coming of a new individual and the transforming of a communal age. As the world became wider, more easily explorable, and debates, the budding nation of France dreamt of empire. The Ottomans were the perfect instrument with which to gauge the deep systemic changes that were taking place in the first half of the sixteenth century. Research in the Catholic Church's archives might also shed light on early missions to the Ottoman lands. This book, thus, invites further dialogue between historians and critics of literature. Its 'absent existence' should be prompting historians and literary critics, art historians, archaeologists to collaborate and embark on common projects.
