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- Title
THE OTTOMANS AND THE TURKS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIEVAL AND THE ELIZABETHAN ENGLISH POETRY.
- Authors
TAŞDELEN, Pınar
- Abstract
The Ottoman Empire was a geographically, economically, religiously and politically powerful empire that lasted from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century, expanding its influence not only to Europe but also to the Middle East, Asia Minor and North Africa. Especially in the late fifteenth century and the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire, as the leader and spreader of Islam, began to have a profound impact on three continents and achieved several military victories, which led Western Europeans to fear that it would bring the downfall of Christianity. The conquest of Constantinople (contemporary Istanbul) by Mehmed II giving the Ottomans a foothold in Europe, and Selim I's becoming the caliphate in the Muslim world strengthened the idea that the Ottoman Empire was the leader of Islam which made the Ottomans a growing threat to Europe with its unavoidable advances. Accordingly, this article intends to discuss the representations of the Turks/Ottomans affiliated with the Muslims/Saracens in both medieval and the Elizabethan English poetry within the framework of The Turke and Gowin, Roland and Vernagu, The Romance of Otuel, Richard Coer de Lyon, Octovian, King Horn, Sir Ferumbras, The Sow done of Baby lone, The Sege off Melayne, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella and The Defense of Poesy and their associations as the religious, cultural and ethnic 'other' in both periods.
- Subjects
MIDDLE English poetry; EARLY modern English poetry; MEDIEVAL literature; EARLY modern English literature; TURKS; TURKIC peoples
- Publication
Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies / HÜTAD Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 22, p253
- ISSN
1305-5992
- Publication type
Article