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The Discovery of Ottoman Greece
Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius
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Richard Calis
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English
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2025
About this book
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece unearths forgotten research by the early modern philhellenist and Lutheran reformer Martin Crusius. His extensive study of Greek Orthodox life, including interviews with traveling alms-seekers, sheds light on European views of Greek decline under Ottoman rule as well as on the global ambitions of Lutheran reform.
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Sheds new light on the Renaissance revival of classical letters, the Reformation and Western philhellenism…shows that a curious homebody like Crusius could be just as engaged with the wider world.
-- Alexander Bevilacqua London Review of Books
-- Alexander Bevilacqua London Review of Books
Gives readers a well-rounded picture of how knowledge was acquired and disseminated in the 16th century…This work aptly illustrates a lesser-known link in classical reception. It will have broad scholarly appeal between both religious history and classical studies readers.
-- Margaret Heller Library Journal
-- Margaret Heller Library Journal
In this lovely intellectual history, Richard Calis recreates how Martin Crusius, a sixteenth-century Lutheran clergyman who never left the Black Forest, became Europe’s greatest expert on Ottoman Greece. Calis deftly works through Crusius's voluminous papers and his foundational but perplexing Turcograecia, illuminating his exchanges with diplomatic correspondents and scores of itinerant Greeks. His fascinating picture of a forgotten form of German philhellenism invites us to rethink important chapters in the history of humanistic scholarship.
-- Suzanne L. Marchand, author of German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
-- Suzanne L. Marchand, author of German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
Martin Crusius never went to Greece, yet he became a brilliant student of the Greek world in his time. Richard Calis’s eloquent and imaginative book follows Crusius on his mental journeys, revealing how he became the greatest of armchair ethnographers through his reading, correspondence, and above all, remarkable interviews with traveling Greeks.
-- Anthony Grafton, author of Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
-- Anthony Grafton, author of Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
This spellbinding and deeply researched book shines a bright light on the Greek Ottoman world as refracted through the lens of a sixteenth-century German Lutheran scholar. In turn, it illuminates an entire period and its possibilities for cultural encounter. Revealing rich and surprising interactions between two entangled worlds, this nuanced work is a key contribution to the histories of Greece, Germany, and early modern global exchange.
-- Ulinka Rublack, author of The Astronomer and the Witch
-- Ulinka Rublack, author of The Astronomer and the Witch
Few scholars possess the linguistic talents and historical creativity to do justice to the archive left behind by the sixteenth-century scholar and humanist Martin Crusius. Richard Calis has breathed new life into his subject: inviting us to join him as he reads over Crusius’s shoulder, he brings together the profound imagination of antiquarian scholarship, the global ambitions of the Reformation, and the close personal networks that facilitated both. This book will change how we understand not only Crusius himself, but also the world of relationships, sociability, and correspondence that linked early modern Germany to the Mediterranean.
-- John-Paul Ghobrial, author of The Whispers of Cities
-- John-Paul Ghobrial, author of The Whispers of Cities
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January 14, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9780674299757
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320
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Keywords for this book
ottoman history; greek studies; martin crusius; cultural history; religious studies; reformation history; greek orthodox; ottoman culture; greek culture; lutheran reform; byzantine history; cultural exchange; religious history; historical research; reformation culture; religious exchange; cultural interaction; ottoman rule; martin luther; molly greene catholic pirates and greek merchants; daniel goffman ottoman empire and early modern europe; greek orthodox church; eastern christianity; european philhellenism; orientalism; turcograecia; andreas argyrus; augsburg confession; stamatius donatus; ecclesiastical scholarship; salomon schweigger; theodosius zygomalas; alms collecting; christine philliou biography of an empire; cemal kafadar between two worlds; donald quataert ottoman empire; colin imber ottoman empire; inky fingers anthony grafton; stephanus gerlachius; stephan gerlach; istanbul
