Original air date: 23 January 2016 | Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early modern Europe? How did Europeans reconcile the notion of "the Turk" as other with the reality of an Ottoman presence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe? What was the relationship between the maps and representations of Ottoman space in Europe and the self-mapping carried out by the Ottomans in maps and miniatures? These are some of the major questions addressed by our guest Palmira Brummett in her new book Mapping the Ottomans, which uses maps to study early modern space and time, travel, the flow of information, claims to sovereignty, and cross-cultural encounters between the Ottomans neighboring Christian polities.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/01/maps-ottoman-empire-europe.html

Palmira Brummett is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee and Visiting Professor of History at Brown University. Her work assesses the rhetorics of cross-cultural interaction in the Ottoman and Mediterranean worlds.

CREDITS

Episode No. 221
Release Date: 23 January 2016
Recording Location: Providence, RI
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Istanbul'dan Ayva Gelir Nar Gelir - Azize Tozem and Sari Recep; Karaköy Balık Pazarı (recorded by Chris Gratien)
Image via Travelogues: http://eng.travelogues.gr/tag.php?view=12276
Additional thanks to Emily Neumeier

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aksan, Virginia H., and Daniel Goffman. The Early Modern Ottomans: Remapping the Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/mapping-ottomans-sovereignty-territory-and-identity-early-modern-mediterranean

Dankoff, Robert. An Ottoman Mentality The World of Evliya Çelebi. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Emiralioğlu, M. Pinar. Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. 2014.

Fetvacı, Emine. Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Goodrich, Thomas D. Atlas-i Hümayun: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Maritime Atlas Discovered in 1984. Wiesbaden: [s.n.], 1987.

______. The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Americana. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1990.

Hagen, Gottfried, Baki Tezcan, and Thomas D. Goodrich. Other places: Ottomans traveling, seeing, writing, drawing the world : essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich. 2012.

Pinto, Karen C. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016.

Ramachandran, Ayesha. The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015.

Smith, Charlotte Colding. Images of Islam, 1453-1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe. 2014.