Resources for Further Study

Primary Source:

Rycaut, Paul. The Present State of the Ottoman Empire: containing the Maxims of the Turkish Politie, the Most Material Points of the Mahometan Religion, Their Sects and Heresies, Their Convents and Religious Votaries: Their Military Discipline, with an Exact Cwolfomputation of Their Forces Both by Land and Sea: iIllustrated with Divers Pieces of Sculpture, Representing the Variety of Habits amongst the Turks: In Three Books. London: 1668. 

Secondary Sources:

Darling, Linda T. “Ottoman Politics through British Eyes: Paul Rycaut’s ‘The Present State of the Ottoman Empire.’” Journal of World History 5, no. 1 (1994): 71–97.

Fleming, Jason Charles. “An Immensely Complex Image: Conceptions of the Turk in English Narratives of the 1683 Siege of Vienna.” M.A., College of Charleston.

Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge U, 2002. Print.

Ingram, Anders. Writing the Ottomans: Turkish History in Early Modern England. Early Modern Literature in History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Laidlaw, Christine. The British in the Levant: Trade and Perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. Library of Ottoman Studies. London; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.

Pagden, Anthony. "Turning the Ottoman Tide." MHQ : The Quarterly Journal of Military History Summer 2008: 8,17,7. ProQuest. 

Schweickard, Wolfgang. “Paul Rycaut, the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Textual Tradition and Lexical Borrowings from Turkish.” Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis; Kraków, no. 132 (2015): 188. doi:10.4467/20834624SL.15.017.3938.

Shaw, Stanford J. and Yapp, Malcolm E. “Decline of the Ottoman Empire”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Dec. 2016.