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| Date: | 2013 |
| Title: | Beautiful Daughters and Rich Tournaments: Pleasures of the East in Correspondences between Ottoman Sultans and Christian Princes in the 14th and 15th century |
| Author: | Döring, Karoline |
| Publisher: | Mittelalter |
| Citation: | Karoline Döring, Beautiful Daughters and Rich Tournaments: Pleasures of the East in Correspondences between Ottoman Sultans and Christian Princes in the 14th and 15th century, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, 7. Oktober 2013, http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/2064 (ISSN 2197-6120) |
| Description: | When I was working on Anti-Turkish print products of the 15th century I came across a most curious little letter written by a certain Morbisanus to pope Pius II. It was printed on three quarto pages at the end of a late 15th century edition of the pope’s Epistola ad Mahumetem, his famous but much disputed attempt in 1461 to convert the Ottoman sultan to Christianity.1 Since the conqueror of Constantinople was called Mehmed, the second of his name, I wondered whether Morbisanus could be simply... |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/80316 |
| Other Identifier: | http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/2064 |
| License: | CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported |
| AMAD ID: | 2064 |
| Appears in Collections: | General history of Europe Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte Open Access |
