| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklë. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 425. $24.95.

This book by Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklë is a provocative, engaging, and beautifully written study. It casts new light on Ottoman love poetry from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, vividly recreating a haunting world of love, longing, and sensuality. The authors deftly analyze poems while providing stories and fascinating details about the men and women who authored them. The book, however, is much more than a work of literary scholarship. The poems are thoughtfully contextualized amid the social, cultural, and political history of both the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe.

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