PhD student in the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Titel of the Dissertation: Depiction and Interpretations of War in Early Modern Travelogues to the Ottoman Empire
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Maner, Prof. Dr. Irene Dingel
The Book retells the history of the Turkish wars from the crusades in the 14th centuries until the great Turkish war in 1699.
Almut Höfert's comprehensive study, based on her dissertation, examines not only what these authors considered worth knowing, but also in what format the information was organized and presented. She assumes that the phenomenon of the Turkish fear, a specific enemy discourse of that time, led to Europeans describing their enemies more closely, engendering a more empirical look at the Ottomans, their government, culture, and religious practices.