Eschatology, Propaganda and Pragmatism : Turks in the Eyes of Nobility of Bohemia in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries

Abstract

This study is devoted to the Fear of the Turks as a phenomenon which is present to varying degrees of intensity throughout the early modern age and which becomes a unifying element in the political and military history and also in the collective mentality of the period.

Keywords

• early modern era
• wars against the Turks
• the fear of the Turks
• the Turks and the nobility of Bohemia
• anti-Turkish propaganda