An Epistemological Outlook to Turkish Image in British and Italian Records, Psalters and Travel Works during the Renaissance Era

The aim of this study is to investigate the Turkish images through British and Italian Records, Psalters, and Travel works during the Renaissance era. Because British students went to Italy in order to broaden their knowledge of arts, and to quicken their mind, Italian Works attach a great importance to this article. During this time the territorial expansion of the Ottomans to Europe began and there was a mounting awe of the Ottomans who had national pride, and patriotism. The unprecedented glory of the Ottomans was thought to be devastating by Europeans. Some population of Europe perished within months, and untended areas, abandoned children, and even many villages depopulated took place. This accelerated the power of the Turks, and the epithets, “lion of power”, “violent”, “heathen”, and “inevitable warriors” were accorded to the Ottomans. The English were familiar with the Ottomans through travel works, and invasions, and the Turks had the elements of bewilderment, fear, restlessness, revolt of Islam and threat for Christianity by the route control of the world trade, and conquests of the Ottomans