Cultural adaptation of a spy in the Balkans
Cultural adaptation of a spy from Finland in the Balkans is the topic of Sabira Ståhlberg’s chapter “Sipping Coffee with the Enemy: Otto von Essen in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Bulgaria (1829-1830)”.
Tag: Ottoman Empire
Book Review: In the Sultan’s Salon
Sabira Ståhlberg’s review of Christian Mauder: In the Sultan’s Salon. Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) has been published in Studia Orientalia Electronica.
Frederick Hasselquist in the Ottoman Empire
Turcologica Upsaliensia. An Illustrated Collection of Essays tells the stories of travellers, researchers and others connected to Uppsala University in Sweden, to the Turkic world.