Turkish threat

Turkish print, 1530

The term Turkish threat describes the horror image of the expanding Ottoman Empire that was widespread among the European public during the 15th to 17th centuries in the wake of the Turkish wars as the threat to the Christian West from an Islamic power. Turkic prints or Turcica are pamphlets used to warn of the "Turkish threat" with the help of the newly invented letterpress printing. The term "Turkish threat" was used from the end of the 19th century in German-language regional historiography and increasingly from the 1950s in Austrian historiography about the Habsburgs .

literature

Jean Delumeau : Fear in the Occident. The history of collective fears in Europe from the 14th to 18th centuries. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-55503-4 (French original edition: La peur en occident, XIVe - XVIIIe siècles ).
Eckhard Leuschner, Thomas Wünsch (ed.): The image of the enemy. Construction of antagonisms and cultural transfer in the age of the Turkish wars. Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7861-2684-3 .
Winfried Schulze : Empire and the Turkish threat in the late 16th century. Studies on the political and social effects of an external threat. Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-01680-4 .
Mustafa Soykut: Image of the "Turk" in Italy. A history of the "other" in early modern Europe 1453–1683. Schwarz, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-87997-289-3 ( digitized version ).

Almut Höfert : Describing the enemy. “Turkish threat” and European knowledge of the Ottoman Empire (1453–1600) (= Campus historical studies. Volume 35). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37482-6 .

Web links

Felix Konrad: From the "Turkish Danger" to Exotism and Orientalism: Islam as the Antithesis of Europe (1453–1914)? European History Online , ed. from the Institute for European History (Mainz) , 2011 (PDF 460 KB).

Remarks

↑ Almut Höfert: The "Turkish Danger" in the early modern period. In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (Ed.): Islamophobia. When the lines of criticism blur. 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 61–70.
Basically Carl Göllner: The European Turkish Prints of the XVI. Century. Berlin 1961.
↑ Almut Höfert: Describing the enemy. "Turkish threat" and European knowledge of the Ottoman Empire. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37482-6 , p. 51.

[1] Almut Höfert: The "Turkish Danger" in the early modern period. In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (Ed.): Islamophobia. When the lines of criticism blur. 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 61–70.
Basically Carl Göllner: The European Turkish Prints of the XVI. Century. Berlin 1961.

[2] Almut Höfert: Describing the enemy. "Turkish threat" and European knowledge of the Ottoman Empire. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37482-6 , p. 51.