Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in The Sixteenth Century Mediterranean World

Authors : Molly GREENE

Pages : 431-435

Doi:10.18589/oa.588157

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Publication Date : 2016-07-27

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Noel Malcolm’s exhaustively researched new book on several generations of the Albanian Bruni family will no doubt receive a good deal of attention from historians of Catholic Europe and the Counter-Reformation, and deservedly so. But Ottoman historians should read it as well. In vivid and elegant prose, Malcolm gives us the best account I have seen yet of the Ottoman conquest of the Albanian world, as well as a fine-grained study of cross-border relations and Ottoman diplomacy at work, both in the region and in Istanbul. 
Keywords : Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire Knights, Knights, Corsairs