Matthew Dimmock: 2 books
by Matthew Dimmock
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The figure of 'Mahomet' was widely known in early modern England. A grotesque version of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahomet was a product of vilification, caricature and misinformation placed at the centre of Christian conceptions of Islam. In Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English...
New Turkes
Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Early Modern England was obsessed with the 'turke'. Following the first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 the printing presses brought endless prayer sheets, pamphlets and books concerning this 'infidel' threat before the public in the vernacular for the first time. As this body of knowledge increased,...