Walter G. Andrews, Mehmet Kalpakli

The Age of Beloveds

Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottomans. In part

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 166mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334248
• ISBN-10: 0822334240
• Artikelnr.: 21451065

Autorenporträt

Walter G. Andrews is Research Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. He is the author of Poetry’s Voice, Society’s Song: Ottoman Lyric Poetry and An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry. Mehmet Kalpakli is Chair and Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Ottoman Studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. They are coauthors of Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
A Guide to Ottoman Turkish Transcription, Pronunciation, Names, and Titles
xi
1. Introduction 1
2. Beloved Boys (and Girls) 32
3. Love Scripts I, Male Bonding 59
4. Love Scripts II, Poems about Poetry about Love 85
5. Love, Sex, and Poetry 113
6. Women and the Art of Love 163
7. Seduction and Reversal 217
8. To Die For...: Love and Violence in the Age of the Beloveds 251
9. Love, Law and Religion 270
10. The End of an Age 304
11. Renaissance, Renaissances, and the Age of the Beloveds 329
Appendix: Ottoman Sultans during the Age of the Beloveds 355
Notes 357
Glossary of Ottoman Terms 389
Bibliography 393
Index 411