Het venster op het Ottomaanse Rijk. De import van theater en nieuws over de Turk in de Republiek

Abstract

This contribution aims at analysing the mechanisms responsible for the negative images of Turks and Ottomans in the Dutch Republic of the seventeenth century. Crucial for those mechanisms are the roles of Amsterdam and the Republic in general as an early modern market place for the exchange of information and culture. The systematic transfer of enemy images from conflict zones like the Mediterranean was a major influence on the public images as provided by the theatre or news media.