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- Title
Birds of paradise for the sultan.
- Authors
SWAN, CLAUDIA
- Abstract
This article describes and analyzes the first diplomatic gift presented by the States General of the Netherlands to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmet I in 1612/1613. The extensive and very costly assortment of items was presented to the Sultan in gratitude for capitulations, permitting the Dutch access to Ottoman ports and therefore direct access to trade in the Levant and Mediterranean. This paper describes the diplomatic gift, a long-neglected episode in Dutch material cultural history, and looks in particular at the role that wonder and wonders played in structuring this remarkable encounter between the fledgling Dutch Republic and the Ottoman court.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; DIPLOMATIC gifts; FOREIGN relations of Turkey; AHMET I, Sultan of Turkey, 1590-1617; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL economic relations; DUTCH Wars of Independence, 1568-1648; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
De Zeventiende Eeuw, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0921-142X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/dze.8464