Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation
The History of the Ottoman Empire in John Foxe's "Acts and Monuments"
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book investigates John Foxe's motivation for inserting a history of the Ottoman Empire into his church history, The Acts and Monuments, and seeks to determine what he hoped to achieve through his virulently negative depiction of Islam and the «Turk», the «common enemy» of Christendom.
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This book investigates John Foxe's motivation for inserting a history of the Ottoman Empire into his church history, The Acts and Monuments, and seeks to determine what he hoped to achieve through his virulently negative depiction of Islam and the «Turk», the «common enemy» of Christendom.
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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».
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Toenjes
Christopher Toenjes is a teaching assistant at the Department of Early Modern History, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher Toenjes
- 2016, Neuausgabe, XVI, 447 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3631669313
- ISBN-13: 9783631669310
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
«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)
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