Anthony Sattin

Were the Ottoman Turks as European as they thought themselves?

Styling themselves as the ‘New Romans’ after 1453, they were as much catalysts of the Renaissance as any Italian prince, Marc David Baer argues

Portrait of a janissary by the 16th-century Italian painter Jacopo Ligozzi. [Nicolo Orsi Battaglini/Bridgeman Images]
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  • The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

    Marc David Baer

    Basic Books, pp. 560, £30

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