Sixteenth-Century Bestsellers

Introduces the range and quantity of Turcica published in the sixteenth century, with particular focus on the two most important authors, George of Hungary and Bartholomew Georgijevic. A central argument that I lay out concerns the importance of this period in the history of Christian-Islamic relations. Views of Islam during the Reformation in Germany were not simply medieval continuations nor expressions or proto-Orientalism, but a fascinating blend of received tradition and new information that will help to precipitate a paradigm shift in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.