Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923Cambridge University Press, 22.06.2006 - 400 Seiten This book surveys the relations between Catholics outside and inside the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1923. After the fall of Constantinople the only large Latin Catholic group to be incorporated into the sultan's domain were the Genoese who lived in Galata, across the Golden Horn from the Byzantine capital. Over the next few decades Turkish armies pushed into the Balkans, overrunning the Catholic population of Albania, Bosnia and Hungary. In the Orient, the sixteenth century saw the Maronites of Lebanon, the Latins of Palestine and most of the Greek islands, which once held Latin Catholic communities, come under Turkish rule. Papal response to the loss of these communities was initially a call to the crusade, but response from West European monarchs was disappointing. Their concerns were closer to home. French interest, however, lay in an alliance with the Turks against the Habsburgs. As a bonus, the Catholics of the Ottoman world received a protector at the Porte in the person of the French ambassador. The book traces the subsequent history of the Latin Catholics and each of the Eastern Catholic churches in the Ottoman Empire until its dissolution in 1923. |
Inhalt
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The Balkans and Greece | 103 |
The Orient and the Latin missions | 127 |
Palestine and Egypt | 214 |
The Catholics of Istanbul from the nineteenth | 223 |
The Vatican Council the Eastern churches | 232 |
The Balkan churches | 239 |
The Armenian Catholic community | 256 |
The Maronites after the reign of Mahmut II | 275 |
The Catholic Melkites | 284 |
Syrian Catholics and the Chaldean church | 293 |
Palestine Egypt and North Africa | 145 |
The eighteenth century in Istanbul | 153 |
The Balkans after the Peace of Karlowitz | 167 |
The Catholic Armenians | 178 |
The Near Eastern churches | 190 |
The Catholics of the Holy Land and Egypt | 304 |
Conclusion | 312 |
Bibliography | 345 |
Index | 377 |
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Seite 224 - Mediterranean — without encountering some sentinel of the ' Mother of Harlots ', ready to challenge him and shout the alarm.
Seite 269 - and to fresh orders from Constantinople. It was a real extermination and slaughter of the innocents, an unheard-of thing, a black page stained with the flagrant violation of the most sacred rights of humanity, of Christianity, of nationality. The Armenian Catholics, too, who in the past had always been respected and excepted from the massacres and persecutions, were this time treated worse than any — again by the orders of the Central Government. There were about 14,000 Armenians at Trebizond...
Seite 322 - Mannucci, Contributi documentarii per la storia della distruzione degli episcopati latini in Oriente nei secoli XVI e XVII, pp.
Seite 4 - but what is this execrable news which is borne to us concerning Constantinople? My hand trembles, even as I write; my soul is horrified, yet neither is it able to restrain its indignation, nor express its misery. Alas, wretched Christianity!" Aeneas condemned an indifferent Latin world which had stood by while the Turks had seized the most renowned city. He lamented the unspeakable cruelties to which its inhabitants had been subjected. More than 40,000 people had died. He grieved the sack and pollution...
Seite 338 - The Roman Catholic Church and Churches in Communion with Rome', in AJ Arberry, ed., Religion in the Middle East (2 vols., London, 1969), 1, 394.
Seite 109 - This was indeed a punishment and act of justice upon the Greeks of this kingdom, many of whom while they were under the rule of the Latin Christians abhorred the limpid water of the Holy Roman obedience, and despised the life-giving stream of its Head ; for as these Greeks preferred to be subjects to that gangrened limb, the Patriarch of Constantinople, because he and his...
Seite 22 - ... the Sultan of Sultans, the king of kings, the distributor of crowns to the princes of the world, the shadow of God upon earth, the emperor and sovereign lord of the White Sea and...