Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 - Paperback

by Tracey A. Sowerby (Editor), Christopher Markiewicz (Editor)

This volume uncovers the diplomatic cultures of the Ottoman court in Constantinople as it emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia by examining ceremonial protocol, diplomatic sociability, gift-giving, cultural exchange, information gathering, and para-diplomatic actors.

Author Biography

Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford) is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (2010), and co-editor of Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 (2017) and Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (2019).

Christopher Markiewicz is a lecturer in Ottoman and Islamic history at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty (2019).