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This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

Autor Jerry Brotton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2017
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN

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'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement'Spectator

'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era'
Daily Telegraph

In 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakech in the hope of establishing an accord which would keep the common enemy of Catholic Spain at bay. This awareness of the Islamic world found its way into many of the great English cultural productions of the day - especially, of course, Shakespeare'sOthelloandThe Merchant of Venice.This Orient Isleshows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141978673
ISBN-10: 0141978678
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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I adored this book, it resonated deeply with me.
A little-known story that Brotton chronicles with scholarship, assurance, and not a little charm.
Jerry Brotton's sparkling new book sets out just how extensive and complex England's relationship with the Arab and Muslim world once was, and tentatively connects the threads of that engagement to our own times.
A vivid, significant work of scholarship.
There is much in these pages to delight and provoke...This Orient Isleis a richly resonant work which not only recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era but also reveals Islam, crucially, as "part of the national story of England".
Jerry Brotton's fabulous new book [reveals] just how deep and entangled the roots of the Islamic and Christian faiths were in the early modern period. ... a timely intervention and a marvellous achievement.

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