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

by Walter G. Andrews, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Mehmet Kalpakli

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334240
• ISBN13: 9780822334248
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"