The birth of the Despot : Venice and the Sublime Porte /

• Main Author: Valensi, Lucette (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Subjects: Κοινή γνώμη > Ιταλία; Δεσποτεία.; Τουρκία > Ιστορία > 1453-1683; Ευρώπη > Τουρκικές επιδράσεις

"In an elegant and graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and...