Description:
Sixteenth-century bestsellers -- The intellectual context: western views of Islam in the late Middle Ages -- The political context: Hapsburg-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth century -- Knowledge and depictions of Islam and the religious life of the Ottoman Turks in Reformation Germany -- Knowledge and depictions of the Turks -- Holy terror: depictions of the Islamic threat and its causes -- Holy war and its discontents: responses to the Ottoman advance -- Escaped slaves of the Turks: George of Hungary and Bartholomew Georgijevic -- Early modern transformations of the image of Islam in the west.