Marianna D. Birnbaum is Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. She is also involved in the Medieval Studies Department’s programs at the Central European University, Budapest.Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University.

"The contributions in the volume collectively constitute a timely addition to the existing body of scholarship that has sought to problematize entrenched categories in the study of transnational political and cultural contacts between East and West, and to propose new models to better understand the complex processes of image-making that sparked from political coexistence in the early modern period."

• Introduction, The Good Fowler as a World Conqueror: Images of Suleyman the Magnificent in Early Modern Hungarian Literary Practice, Repercussions of a Murder: The Death of Sehzade Mustafa on the Early Modern English Stage, Constructing a Self-Image in the Image of the Other: Pope Pius II's Letter to Sultan Mehmed II, Topography of a Society: Muslims, Dwellers, and Customs of Algiers in Antonio de Sosa's Topographia, e Historia General de Argel, The Ragusan Image of Venice and the Venetian Image of Ragusa in the Early Modern Period, All Moldavian Eyes on Ottomans: Perceptions and Representations at the End of the Fifteenth Century, List of Contributors, Index

Marianna D. Birnbaum is Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. She is also involved in the Medieval Studies Department’s programs at the Central European University, Budapest.Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University.

"The contributions in the volume collectively constitute a timely addition to the existing body of scholarship that has sought to problematize entrenched categories in the study of transnational political and cultural contacts between East and West, and to propose new models to better understand the complex processes of image-making that sparked from political coexistence in the early modern period."

• Introduction, The Good Fowler as a World Conqueror: Images of Suleyman the Magnificent in Early Modern Hungarian Literary Practice, Repercussions of a Murder: The Death of Sehzade Mustafa on the Early Modern English Stage, Constructing a Self-Image in the Image of the Other: Pope Pius II's Letter to Sultan Mehmed II, Topography of a Society: Muslims, Dwellers, and Customs of Algiers in Antonio de Sosa's Topographia, e Historia General de Argel, The Ragusan Image of Venice and the Venetian Image of Ragusa in the Early Modern Period, All Moldavian Eyes on Ottomans: Perceptions and Representations at the End of the Fifteenth Century, List of Contributors, Index

Marianna D. Birnbaum is Research Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA. She is also involved in the Medieval Studies Department’s programs at the Central European University, Budapest.Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University.

"The contributions in the volume collectively constitute a timely addition to the existing body of scholarship that has sought to problematize entrenched categories in the study of transnational political and cultural contacts between East and West, and to propose new models to better understand the complex processes of image-making that sparked from political coexistence in the early modern period."

• Introduction, The Good Fowler as a World Conqueror: Images of Suleyman the Magnificent in Early Modern Hungarian Literary Practice, Repercussions of a Murder: The Death of Sehzade Mustafa on the Early Modern English Stage, Constructing a Self-Image in the Image of the Other: Pope Pius II's Letter to Sultan Mehmed II, Topography of a Society: Muslims, Dwellers, and Customs of Algiers in Antonio de Sosa's Topographia, e Historia General de Argel, The Ragusan Image of Venice and the Venetian Image of Ragusa in the Early Modern Period, All Moldavian Eyes on Ottomans: Perceptions and Representations at the End of the Fifteenth Century, List of Contributors, Index