The Good Fowler as a World Conqueror
The Good Fowler as a World Conqueror

Images of Suleyman the Magnificent in Early Modern Hungarian Literary Practice

Author(s): Ágnes Drosztmér
Subject(s): Middle Ages
Published by: Central European University Press
Summary/Abstract: A central figure in the sixteenth century, both on the world stage and in the Ottoman campaigns against Hungary, Suleyman the Magnificent was the subject of various artistic and literary works throughout the Ottoman Empire and various parts of Europe as well. Ottoman conquests reached their peak under his reign, and on the global scene, he competed with European emperors in making new territorial claims as the known world expanded. These processes and his personal role in them were presented in Ottoman historiography in consciously created, uniform depictions and were reflected in all possible media. These images, with some alterations,found their way into European works about the sultan as well, and meanwhile,diverse depictions of him appeared in European historiography and literature. In the course of the Ottoman Empire’s expansion in continental Europe and continuous campaigns, battles, and sieges across Hungary, the Hungarian Kingdom was divided into three parts.

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