Assigned Reading:

E. Natalie Rothman, Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul (Cornell UP, 2012), chapter 5.

John-Paul Ghobrial, The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows between Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull (Oxford UP, 2013), chapter 3.

Primary Source: Fourth letter of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Habsburg ambassador to Süleyman the Magnificent. Translated by Edward Seymour Foster.

Seminar Questions:

• How did information travel between the Ottoman Empire and western Europe?
  
• What were the attitudes of European residents in Constantinople towards their hosts?
  

Further Reading:

Eric Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006).

Daniel Goffman, Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642-1660 (University of Washington Press, 1998).

John-Paul Ghobrial, The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull (Oxford UP, 2013).

Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Allen Lane, 2015).

James Mather, Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World (Yale UP, 2011).

Lucette Valensi, The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte (Cornell UP, 1993).