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FRANÇOIS PETIS DE LA CROIX - ETAT PRESENT DES NATIONS ET EGLISES GRECQUES, ARMENIENNE, ET MARONITE EN TURQUIE
First edition. Pierre Herissant, Paris, 1715. 266 pages, 15x8 cm. 1 frontispiece engraving. Entirely bound in parchment typical of the
period. Blackmer 1297.
THE FAMOUS BOOK BY THE RENOWNED FRENCH ORIENTALIST AND HISTORIAN FRANÇOIS DE LA CROIX, WHICH EXAMINES THE STATUS OF GREEK, ARMENIAN, AND MARONITE CHURCHES IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE 17TH CENTURY… AN ANALYSIS BY DE LA CROIX ON THE MULTINATIONAL AND MULTI-RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE’S GEOGRAPHY, WHO, DURING THE REIGN OF KING LOUIS XIV—RENOWNED IN FRANCE AS THE SOLE PROTECTOR OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST—TRIED TO DEVELOP AN ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVE TO THE PREJUDICED EASTERN IMAGES DOMINANT IN WESTERN EUROPE...
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