The Turkish Conundrum
Roger Crowley finds that modern European concerns about Turkey are anticipated in an article by Bernard Lewis, first published in 1953.
In October 1953 the historian Bernard Lewis wrote an article for History Today about the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Europe. The occasion was the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople; his purpose was to plead for a more balanced assessment of the empire and to accord it an honourable place in world history, to see the fall of Constantinople not as a ‘victory of barbarism, but rather of another and not undistinguished civilization’.
This article is available to History Today online subscribers only. If you are a subscriber, please log in.
Please choose one of these options to access this article:
- Purchase a online subscription and receive unlimited access to our archive for one week, one month or a year
- Purchase a print and website subscription, giving you one year's access to all our content and 12 editions of History Today magazine.
- If you are already a print subscriber, purchase the online archive upgrade for a year's worth of access at a reduced price
Call our Subscriptions department on +44 (0)20 3219 7813 for more information.
If you are logged in but still cannot access the article, please contact us
This Month's Magazine
Newsletter
From The Current Issue
David Coke
|
Richard Jones
|
Roger Hudson
|
Derek Wilson
|
History Today App
Follow Us
From The Archive
 The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England. |
