The Ottoman “Age of Discovery”
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Are the Ottomans Part of Renaissance Culture?
The ottomans were very much integrated into renaissance diplomacy and military alliances. Henry the eighth enjoyed dressing like an ottoman, he would wear a turban and these fantastic robes and strut around. The only way she can communicate with that ofther empire is through letters in italian,. She's not corresponding with the sultan, but with the mother of the sultan. So here's england. Here's a kingdom that had expelled its jews 300 years earlier, and yet here it's queen hastecora.
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