Read The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam Online
Authors: Jerry Brotton
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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