Introduction: Contacts, Encounters, Practices: Ottoman-European Diplomacy

Authors : Michael TALBOT, Phil MCCLUSKEY

Pages : 269-276

Doi:10.18589/oa.588057

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Publication Date : 2016-07-27

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :On 24 June 2014, a small group of doctoral students and early career researchers met at the University of St Andrews to discuss ideas of contacts, encounters, and practices between the Ottoman Empire and European states between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.1 The east coast of Scotland may not seem the most obvious location for a workshop on Ottoman-European diplomacy – Scotland as an independent kingdom never sent ambassadors to Istanbul, and only in the later nineteenth century do we find local Scottish businessmen acting as Ottoman consuls in Edinburgh and Glasgow to protect the interests of Ottoman commercial shipping in the docks on Clydebank and Tayside – but the beautiful surroundings of the oldest of Scotland’s ancient universities, which celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2013, and the surprisingly sunny and warm weather, helped the conversations to flow.
Keywords : Michael Talbot, Phil McCluskey, Osmanlı Avrupa