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and heresy, 24, 25, 27, 31
Islam vs., 8, 25–26, 271, 298
Orthodox vs. Roman Catholic branches, 19
split between Catholics and Protestants, 8, 18, 24–27, 34, 36, 37, 65, 73, 134, 148
unification sought for, 26

Church of England, 61

Cicero, 158

clash of civilizations, 299

Clement VII, Pope, 24, 159,
160

Clement VIII, Pope, 231, 251–52, 254

Clements, Joseph, 74–75, 84, 92

Clothworkers’ Company, 74

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 276

Conisby, Humphrey, 223

Conquest of Tunis
tapestries, 16, 18, 27

Constantinople:

Barton as trade representative in, 181–82, 185, 217
fall of (1453), 9, 47, 62
Hagia Sophia in, 85, 117, 202
Harborne as English ambassador in, 10, 113–14, 117–19, 121–24, 129, 131–32, 140–45
Harborne as trade representative in, 83, 84–89, 90, 93, 100, 102, 110, 184, 240
rebuilding of, 85–86
sultan’s harem in, 86–87, 95;
see also
Safiye Sultan
Topkapi Palace in, 4, 72, 85, 86, 117, 202, 220
trade route to, 68, 72, 74–75, 83, 94, 112, 117

Cordell, Thomas, 74–75

Corrai, Angelo, 234

Cottington, Francis, 293

Cristóbal, Don, 150

Curtain Theater, 297

Cyprus:

Ottoman invasion of, 63–64, 272
Ottoman sovereignty over, 72

Cyrus the Great, 46

Daborne, Robert,
A Christian Turned Turk,
297

Dallam, Thomas, 219–22, 223–24, 225

Damascus:

trade in, 35
Umayyad dynasty in, 37

Darius, ruler of Persia, 180

David XI of Kartli, 50, 51

Day, John, 174

Dekker, Thomas, 174, 293

Lust’s Dominion; or The Lascivious Queen
, also known as
The Spanish Moor’s Tragedy,
272–74, 275

de Vere, Edward, 98

Dias, Estêvão, 128

Dickonson, Miles, 128

Diet of Augsburg, 25, 27

Diet of Nuremberg, 25

Dolphin
(ship), 129–30

Donne, John, 194, 231

D’Ossat, Arnaud, 252, 253

Drake, Sir Francis:

and attacks on Spanish fleet, 123, 146
first circumnavigation of globe by, 74, 114
and
Golden Hind,
74
as pirate, 133, 135, 143
and Portugal Expedition, 153–54, 166–67, 168, 181
and slavery, 133–34

Dudar, Abdullah, 259, 264

Duodo, Piero, 249–50, 251

Du Ryer, André,
L’Alcoran de Mahomet,
298

Earl of Sussex’s Men, 187

East India Company, 290

Edict of Sincere Repentance, 48

Edward, Prince, 15

Edward III, King of England, 16

Edward IV, King of England, 27, 28, 29, 30–31

Edward VI, King of England, 57

Edwards, Arthur, 53

Eliot, T. S., 188

Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of James I), 291

Elizabeth I, Queen of England:

accession to the throne, 32, 33, 42
achievements of, 288
and aging, 181, 254, 264, 271
allies beyond Europe sought by, 8, 10, 62, 81, 101–2, 152, 169, 184, 223, 244, 248, 251
anniversaries of reign of, 266–68
annual revenue of, 258
coronation of, 33
correspondence with Ottoman sultan, 1–3, 4, 6–7, 89–95, 101–2, 113–14, 118, 120, 136, 171, 186, 221–22, 265, 270–71
correspondence with Persian shahs, 46, 50, 68–69, 71, 114–16, 119, 170–72
correspondence with tsar, 45
death of, 288, 291
depicted in artworks, 207
excommunication of, 3, 8, 59–62, 65, 68, 76, 92
final years of reign, 255, 264
finances of, 154
and national debt, 45
policy toward Spain, 257–60
and Portugal Expedition, 153–54, 168
proclamation of 1601, 269–71, 273
reign of, 27, 152, 267, 270, 288
and religion, 33–34, 44, 59, 60–61
and slaves, 44, 54
and Spanish Armada, 142, 147–48
teeth of, 4, 56, 266
and trade, 57, 58, 71, 80, 132, 133

England:

attacks on Catholicism in, 61
and circumnavigation of the globe, 74, 114
and Elizabeth’s excommunication, 60–61
famine in, 270
and Islam,
see
Islam
May Day riots (1517), 293
Moorish delegation to, 193
as multicultural society, 300
national debt of, 45, 258
and oath of supremacy, 34, 60–61
Ottoman-related books and art in, 204–5
plague in, 187
Protestantism in, 34, 61, 62, 218, 274, 288
and saltpeter trade, 67, 71, 115, 131
and slave trade, 44, 58, 133–34, 135
textiles from, 35, 43, 45, 46, 56, 58, 66, 68, 74, 83, 88, 104, 201, 205–6
and timber trade, 115
trade with Ottoman Empire, 3, 4–5, 40, 41, 53, 73–75, 88–92, 96–97, 101, 103, 112–14, 117–19, 186, 203, 204–5
trade with Persia, 44, 114–16
trade with Russia, 31, 44, 53, 104
war with Spain, 193–95, 196, 262–64
as world power, 5, 152

Erasmus of Rotterdam,
De bello turcico,
25–27, 184, 272

Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 196, 260

and anti-Spanish activities, 194, 231, 233, 244, 271
arrest and execution of, 248, 252–53
and Ireland, 248
and Sherley, 230, 231, 233, 235, 240, 244, 247, 248, 252–53

Europe:

Catholicism in, 9, 34
guilds in, 29
Jews persecuted in, 127
maps of, 31–32

Fatimah, 36, 37

Felton, John, 59, 60

Ferdinand, Holy Roman Emperor, 31

Ferdinand II of Aragon, 25

Finch (Dragoman), 221

Fishtali, Abd al-Aziz al-, 148–49, 150, 195

Fitch, Ralph, 119

Forster, Richard, 118

Foscarini, Giacomo, 234

Fourth Lateran Council (1215), 62

Foxe, John,
Acts and Monuments
(
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
), 27, 159,
160
, 213

France:

and anti-Ottoman alliance, 38, 119
and Capitulations,
see
Capitulations
English army in, 257
Franco-Ottoman alliance, 9, 93
Guise faction in, 61
Huguenots in, 61–62, 101, 181–83
Spanish invasion of, 181
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, 34

Francis I, King of France, 9, 17

Frederick V, Elector Palatine, 291

Gama, Vasco da, 233

Gardiner, Stephen, 14, 15, 16

Garrard, Sir William, 58–59

George, Saint, 213–15

Gerard, Thomas, 260

Germigny, Jacques de, 95–96, 100–101

Ghalib, Sultan Abdullah al-, 58–59, 63

Giles, John, 129

Giraldi, Francisco, 71

Giraldi, Giovanni Battista (“Cinthio”),
Hecatommithi,
276–77, 279

Globe Theatre, 188

Glover, Thomas, 223

Godunov, Boris, 245–47

Gog and Magog, 47

Gomes de Silva, Joao, 148

Gómez, Ruy, 14

Gore, William, 130

Gosson, Stephen, 105, 107

Granada, Moriscos in, 63

Greene, Robert, 158, 160, 272

Alphonsus, King of Aragon,
173
Tragicall Reign of Selimus,
172–73, 188

Gregory XIII, Pope, 76, 101

Gresham, Sir Thomas, 68, 71

Greville, Fulke, 174

Grey, Lady Jane, 15

Grocers’ Company, 193

Habsburg Empire, 17, 18, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 62, 63, 72, 93, 186–87, 204

“Hagarene,” use of term, 20

Hakluyt, Richard,
Principal Navigations,
44, 56, 74, 83–84, 88, 206, 217–18, 226

Hamett, Mully, King of Barbary, 259

Hanmer, Meredith, 133–38, 141, 144, 180

Harborne, William, 74, 97–102, 175

achievements of, 117–19, 146–47, 151, 225
and Anglo-Ottoman alliance, 89–93, 95, 96, 97–98, 102, 107, 117–19, 183
and
Bark Roe,
98–101, 103, 105
in Constantinople, 84–89, 90–93, 100, 102, 110
death of, 147
and English captives, 92, 100, 134, 138–42, 146
as first Turkish ambassador, 10, 113–14, 117–19, 121–24, 129, 131–32, 140–45
memoirs of, 141, 145
recall requested by, 145–47
as spy, 84, 118–19

Hardwick embroidery, 206–8

Hassan, Mulay, 17

Hassan, Seadeddin Muhammad Ben, 142

“Hassan Aga,” 10, 138–39

Haughton, William, 174

Hawkins, John, 146

Hawkins, William, 135–36, 137

Hazlitt, William, 212

Hector,
219, 221–22, 223

Henry, Cardinal, 80

Henry II, King of France, 34

Henry III, King of France, 95, 97, 101, 181

Henry IV, King of France (Henry of Navarre), 181–82, 230, 253

Henry VIII, King of England, 4, 25, 159,
160
, 293

children of, 13, 19, 76
dissolution of monasteries, 192
separation from Roman Catholic Church, 13, 18
and trade, 28–29
wars with France, 45

Henslowe, Philip, 6, 106, 156, 178

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