Religion In The 1500s

Throughout the world in the 1500s, different countries articulated different perspectives about the Ottoman empire. However, the most contrasting perspectives of the Ottoman empire were the Europeans. The two sources that have the most religious motivation contrast is a New Means to an Old End: Early Modern Maps in the Service of An Anti-Ottoman Crusade, written by James P. Krokar and Gloriana Rules the Waves: Or, the Advantage of Being Excommunicated (and a Woman) written by Lisa Jardine. They both show different images of the Europeans in this time frame. The reasons for the contrast between the images discussed in these two articles are a combination of religious and political goals: in each case what we see is that while religion initially
In the Krokar article, it was about getting back all southern Europe back from the Ottomans. It then turned political as Christofaro tried to influence other European leaders to help his crusade, and his attempt to gain back land from the Ottomans. Religion influenced them to start a war with the Ottomans to get southern Europe back. In which many wanted to turn the “Habsburg–Ottoman Long War into a broader anti Ottoman crusade, ”, which shows how the peoples devotion to their religion tied to their thoughts on how to proceed with land control politically. Even trying to turn the Long-war into a crusade they wanted to involve “more Christian rulers and Ottoman Christian subjects ” using religion as the primordial reason to start a war. They did not include subjects from other religion as they wanted their political influence to be Christian dominant. On the contrary, Queen Elizabeth exile from the Catholic church only motivated her to be more involved in the Habsburg-Ottoman war. Which is the opposite of what “the Papal intention was further to isolate England from the rest of Catholic Europe ”. The Queen becoming more involved with the Ottoman, building an alliance with them, helped the Ottomans in the Long-war, economically and politically. “Against this had to be set the fact that English trade with Turkey would create hostility amongst the French and Venetian merchants who had previously held the monopoly of such trade, and anger the king of Spain. ” As, building an alliance with the Ottomans is partial revenge of being exiled, it gave England more trading options with the Ottomans in goods and services, and a fairer trade with them. “... the Ottoman Turks were more eager than ever in the later 1570s to import munitions ”, England in this point in time had gun powder, and them starting a trade gave the Ottomans an advantage in the war against the Habsburg as they have a deadlier