Europe and the Ottoman World. Exchanges and conflicts. (Sixteenth to seventeenth centuries).

KARMAN, GABOR - RADU G. PAUN (Edited by) Europe and the Ottoman World. Exchanges and conflicts. (Sixteenth to seventeenth centuries). Istanbul: Isis, 2013. Large 8vo., 261 p. Paperback. New ISBN: 9789754284874 CATALOG: Ottoman history KEYWORDS: Ottoman Empire international relations Ottoman European relations Preface Foreword 1. Life in Wartime Ovidiu CRISTEA: A Second Front: Wallachia and the ‘Long War’ against the Turks. Marco PENZI : Professional Warfare as Career Option: Francois de Bassompierre Joins the Long Turkish War. Domagoj MADUNIC': Frontier Elites of the Ottoman Empire during the War for Crete (1645–1669): The Case of Ali-Pasha C(engic'. 2. Networks in War and Peace Johann PETITJEAN: On his Holiness’ Secret Service: How Ragusa became an Intelligence Agency after Lepanto. Natalia KRÓLIKOWSKA: Polish-Tatar Alliances in the Seventeenth Century. Intelligence Gathering, Espionage and Exchange of Information. Gábor KÁRMÁN: The Network of a Wallachian Pretender in Constantinople: The Contacts of the Future Voivode Mihail Radu (1654–1657). Balázs SUDÁR: Iskender and Gábor Bethlen: The Pasha and the Prince. 3. The Power of Representations Liviu PILAT: Between Ottoman Empire and Latin Christendom: Moldavia as Frontier Society in the Late Middle Ages. Radu G. PA(UN: The Ottoman Empire and its Tributaries as Seen through Foreign Eyes: Venetian Sixteenth-Century Relazioni. Christine VOGEL: A Sublime Illusion? French Accounts of Ottoman Ceremonies in the Late Seventeenth Century. About the Authors. …