Toenjes Christopher Toenjes

Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation (eBook, ePUB)

The History of the Ottoman Empire in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Foxe wrote the first English history of the Ottoman Empire in his magnum opus, The Acts and Monuments. He exceeds contemporary representations in his extremely negative image of Islam and the «Turks,» who are identified as Antichrist and the epitome of wickedness. By juxtaposing Foxe's work with that of his sources, fascinating conclusions can be drawn. The author analyzes the factors prompting Foxe to insert a lengthy digression on a topic that does not directly concern the main theme of his ecclesiastical history, shedding new light on the established notions of his historiographic methodology and his perception of Catholicism as the greatest enemy of «true religion».

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783653955156
• Artikelnr.: 53010358

Autorenporträt

Christopher Toenjes is a teaching assistant at the Department of Early Modern History, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foxe's historiographic methodology and editing of source material - Exegesis of the Book of Revelation in The Acts and Monuments - Descriptions of the Turks and their religion - The Turkish threat and the remnant of Christianity.

Rezensionen

«Die Studie verdichtet die Ergebnisse vieler wichtiger Einzelstudien zur osmanischen Expansion und deren Auswirkungen und fügt sie zu einem Beispiel zusammen, das einen facettenreichen Einblick in ein "englisches Türkenbild" und seine Verwendung im Religionsdiskurs - oder besser gesagt: in den Religionsdiskursen - im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit gibt.»
(Karoline Döring, Historische Zeitschrift 306/2018)

«[...] Toenjes' book makes a contribution to a growing scholarship on early modern European and English historiographical and religious writing on the Turks.»
(Anders Ingram, Francia-Recensio 1/2017)