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The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European
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The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society Hardcover - 2005

by Walter G. Andrews; Mehmet Kalpakli


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The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe--from Istanbul to London--during the long sixteenth century. Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpakli provide a generous sampling of translations of Ottoman poems, many of which have never appeared in English, along with informative and inspired close readings. The authors explain that the flourishing of Ottoman power and culture during the "Turkish Renaissance" manifested itself, to some degree, as an "age of beloveds," in which young men became the focal points for the desire and attention of powerful officeholders and artists as well as the inspiration for a rich literature of love.

The authors show that the "age of beloveds" was not just an Ottoman, eastern European, or Islamic phenomenon. It extended into western Europe as well, pervading the cultures of Venice, Florence, Rome, and London during the same period. Andrews and Kalpakli contend that in an age dominated by absolute rulers and troubled by war, cultural change, and religious upheaval, the attachments of dependent courtiers and the longings of anxious commoners aroused an intense interest in love and the beloved. The Age of Beloveds reveals new commonalities in the cultural history of two worlds long seen as radically different.

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""The Age of Beloveds" is a treasure and a masterpiece. With breathtakingly extensive original research, it is beautifully written, in a style both inviting and impressive. It is the fruit of a lifetime's project to add Ottoman literature to the canons of world literature."--Victoria Holbrook, author of "The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance"

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  • Title The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
  • Author Walter G. Andrews; Mehmet Kalpakli
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2005-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822334507 / 082233450X
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: Turkey
  • Library of Congress subjects Turkish poetry - History and criticism, Love - Turkey - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004019577
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.709

About the author

Walter G. Andrews is Research Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. He is the author of Poetry's Voice, Society's Song: Ottoman Lyric Poetry and An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry.

Mehmet Kalpakli is Chair and Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for Ottoman Studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. They are coauthors of Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology.

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