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Tag Archives: Sir Paul Rycaut
messy antics
Passion unchained. Does absolute power equate with absolute bliss? For the Sultan’s of the Ottoman Empire for the most part; the effort to reconcile two antagonistic ideas seemed to almost take a perverse pleasure. Seraglio life could be characterized as … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, Grand Seraglio, Jean Claude Flechet, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Ottaviano Bon, Ottoman Turkey history, Sir Paul Rycaut, Sultan Ibrahim I
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vintage violence
Janissaries were uneducated except in violence and were fanatically conservative. In 1763, when Lord Baltimore passed through Constantinople, he observed that the Corps was still carrying bows and arrows, sabers and lances, having never got used to firearms. Sultan Selim … Continue reading
seraglio: methodical despotism
The Grand Seraglio. The search for absolute bliss backed up by absolute power with all the variations of sex, death, and violence could muster. The price to pay for approaching utopian conditions in a sort of Islamic version of the … Continue reading
absolute bliss and the grand seraglio
Within its walls, the Turkish sultans sought the answer to an ancient question: Can absolute power bring absolute bliss? …. The Grand Seraglio in Instanbul. Until 1852 this was the Sultans’ residence, a palace known in the West as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Duchess of Marlborough, Grand Seraglio Harem, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Mozart abduction from the grand seraglio, Ottaviano Bon, Paul-Louis Bouchard, Sir Paul Rycaut
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