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The lion house : the rise of Suleyman the Magnificent / Christopher de Bellaigue.

Set in Venice, 1522, this is 'eye-witness history' telling the story of Suleyman's rise to power in the 16th century. Sensitive intelligence arrives from the east confirming the European powers' greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has amassed all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on their entrails.
Author: De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971-
Published: [London] : Vintage, 2023.
xix, 282 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 SUL - Available - 95000000092037

The lion house : the coming of a king / Christopher de Bellaigue.

Set in Venice, 1522, this is 'eye-witness history' telling the story of Suleyman's rise to power in the 16th century. Sensitive intelligence arrives from the east confirming the European powers' greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has amassed all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on their entrails.
Author: De Bellaigue, Christopher, 1971-
Published: London : The Bodley Head, 2022.
320 pages ; 24 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 SUL - Available - 95000000057762

God's shadow : the Ottoman sultan who shaped the modern world / Alan Mikhail.

Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping detail, Mikhail's groundbreaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life and world. An historical masterwork, 'God's Shadow' radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew. A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East.
Author: Mikhail, Alan, 1979-
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2021.
576 pages ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 956.015 - Available - 95000000030345

Empress of the East : how a slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire / Leslie Peirce.

Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power. Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but here, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
Author: Peirce, Leslie P.
Published: London : Icon, 2020.
375 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 HUR - Available - 95000000031264

The lion and the nightingale : a journey through modern Turkey / Kaya Genç.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilisations. This book presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale.
Author: Genç, Kaya
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
208 pages ; 22 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 956.1 - Available - 04507700

Empress of the East : how a slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire / Leslie Peirce.

Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power. Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but here, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
Author: Peirce, Leslie P.
Published: London : Icon, 2018.
375 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 920 HUR - Available - 04449321

Constantinople : the last great siege, 1453 / Roger Crowley.

In the Spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: the capture of the thousand year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. This text is an intense, extraordinary tale of courage and cruelty, technological ingenuity, endurance and luck.
Author: Crowley, Roger, 1951-
Published: London : Faber, 2005.
xi, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), col. port. ; 24 cm.

Jubilee Library - Jubilee Library Store - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - N 949.618 - N - Available - 02745827

Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300-1774 / text by David Nicolle ; colour plates by Angus McBride.

Author: Nicolle, David, 1944-
Published: London : Osprey, 1983.
40p., A-H p. of plates : ill(some col.), maps,plans ; 25cm.
Men-at-arms series ; 140

Jubilee Library - (Brighton and Hove City Libraries) - Adult NonFiction - 355 TURKEY - U - Available - 01575355

The present state of Turkey ; or a description of the political, civil, and religious, constitution, government, and laws of the Ottoman Empire ; the finances, military and naval establishments ; the state of learning, and of the liberal and mechanical arts ; the manners and domestic economy of the Turks and other subjects of the Grand Signor ; &c. &c. together with the geographical, political, and civil, state of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia ; from observations made, during a residence of fifteen years in Constantinople and the Turkish provinces / by Thomas Thornton, Esq.

Author: Thornton, Thomas
2nd ed., with corrections and additions.
Published: London : Printed for Joseph Mawman, 22, Poultry, 1809.
2 v. : 2 maps.

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Histoire d'Osman, premier du nom, XIXe empereur des turcs, et de l'imperatrice Aphendina Ashada / par Madame de Gomez.

Author: Gomez, Madame de, 1684-1770
Published: Paris : Prault, pere, 1734.
2 v. : 8vo.

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The history of the present state of the Ottoman empire : containing the maxims of the Turkish polity, the most material points of the mahometan religion, their sects, and heresies, their convents and religious votaries. Their military discipline, with an exact computation of their forces both by sea and land. Illustrated with divers pieces of sculpture representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks

Author: Rycaut, Paul, Sir
5th ed., corrected and enlarged by the author.
Published: London : Printed by T. N. for Joanna Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1682.
406, [5]p. ; ill., ports.

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