Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery.(Review)

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. By Nabil Matar (New York, Columbia University Press, 1999) 268 pp. $32.50

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen proposes a new paradigm for envisioning Britons' encounter with the "Other" during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The first section (chapters 1-2) details the various ways in which Englishmen, Turks, and Moors encountered, and became familiar, with each other (for example, as immigrants, traders, soldiers, and captives). Section two (chapter 3) delineates Matar's model, called "The Renaissance Triangle," which postulates a triangular relationship between England, North Africa, and the Americas, the examination of which reveals similarities in …