Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture of the past two decades. The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural aesthetics and the intellectual, cultural, technological and human interactions between the Ottoman world and Europe.

Colin Imber is Reader in Turkish at the University of Manchester. Keiko Kiyotaki is Visiting Fellow in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rhoads Murphey is Reader in Ottoman Studies at the University of Birmingham.