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1526000453<p>Rare German Anti-Ottoman Propaganda Pamphlet on the Defense of Christendom<br />Germany 1526.</p><p>12mo. One title leaf and 17 ff. 36 pp. Text in early New High German Frühneuhochdeutsch. Nineteenth-century marbled boards. Very Good. Ex-library with two small marginal stamps.</p><p>Extremely rare sixteenth-century political and military propaganda tract directed against the Ottoman Empire printed at the height of Ottoman expansion into Central Europe following the Battle of Mohács 1526. No printer or place stated.</p><p>According to Carl Göllner Turcica: Die europäischen Türkendrucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts only one copy is recorded dated 1526 VD 16 no. 1881 underscoring the exceptional rarity of this work.</p><p>The pamphlet addresses the urgent question of how the Holy Roman Empire Deutsches Reich should organize its defense against the Ottomans. While it discusses military preparedness and strategic resistance to the Turks the core focus of the text lies in the economic and social burden of war specifically:</p><p>How the costs of military defense should be financed<br />The responsibility of the Christian Church and the Vatican<br />Contributions expected from the German territorial states<br />The allocation of financial obligations among different social classes within German society<br />The work reflects contemporary anxieties surrounding the Ottoman threat and provides valuable insight into early modern fiscal-military thought confessional politics and the rhetoric of defending Christendom against Islam. It is an important source for the study of Reformation-era political discourse anti-Ottoman propaganda and the social history of warfare in sixteenth-century Europe.</p><p>A remarkably scarce survival of early German political printing concerning the Ottoman question.</p> hardcover