Elzābet of Anletār
John Gallagher, 22 September 2016
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
by Jerry Brotton.
Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, March 2016,978 0 241 00402 9 Show More
by Jerry Brotton.
Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, March 2016,
“... and glum) found in the bedchamber of Bess of Hardwick. In This Orient Isle, Jerry Brotton sets out to show that ‘Islam in all its manifestations – imperial, military, cultural, theological and commercial – is part of the national story of England.’ He does this, in part, by turning popular conceptions of the ‘sceptred ... ”
