{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-ottoman-greece-knowledge-encounter-and-belief-in-the-mediterranean-world-of-martin-crusius-9780674292734","title":"The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagination.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled an exceptionally rich record of Greek life under Ottoman rule. Although he never left his home in the university town of T?bingen, Crusius spent decades annotating books and manuscripts, corresponding with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and interviewing Greek Orthodox alms-seekers. Ultimately, he gathered his research into a seminal work called the \u003ci\u003eTurcograecia, \u003c\/i\u003e which served for centuries as Europe's foremost source on Ottoman Greece. Yet as Richard Calis reveals, Crusius's massive--and largely untapped--archive has much more to tell us about how early modern Europeans negotiated cultural and religious difference. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn particular, Crusius's work illuminates Western European views of the religious \"other\" within Christianity: the Greek Orthodox Christians living under Ottoman rule, a group both familiar and foreign. Many Western Europeans, including Crusius, developed narratives of Greek cultural and religious decline under Ottoman rule. Crusius's records, however, reveal in exceptional detail how such stories developed. His interactions with his Greek Orthodox visitors, and with a vast network of correspondents, show that Greeks' own narratives of hardship entwined in complex ways with Western Europeans' orientalist views of the Ottoman world. They also reflect the religious tensions that undergirded these exchanges, fueled by Crusius's fervent desire to spread Lutheran belief across Ottoman Greece and the wider world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA lively intellectual history drawn from a forgotten archive, \u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of Ottoman Greece\u003c\/i\u003e is also a perceptive character study, in which Crusius takes his place in the history of ethnography, Lutheran reform, and European philhellenism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Calis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Historical Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674292734","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43324800336009,"sku":"9780674292734","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0ac93366-996b-44bb-9458-7c07af6cbbc2.jpg?v=1738649064","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-discovery-of-ottoman-greece-knowledge-encounter-and-belief-in-the-mediterranean-world-of-martin-crusius-9780674292734","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}