Travel reportages from America and the Ottoman Empire are most important to the European culture history of the 16th century. They report about the consequences of the broadening of geographic horizons and how they began to sway the traditional European views and standards. People were forced to harmonize old and new knowledge and to ?learn? openness to unknown and surprising facts. This book tries to give interdisciplinary answers to questions of cultural comparisons, aspects of new and foreign civilizations, changed perceptions of the individual behavior and the pictorial and literature expression of these fundamental eruptions.

Travel reportages from America and the Ottoman Empire are most important to the European culture history of the 16th century. They report about the consequences of the broadening of geographic horizons and how they began to sway the traditional European views and standards. People were forced to harmonize old and new knowledge and to ?learn? openness to unknown and surprising facts. This book tries to give interdisciplinary answers to questions of cultural comparisons, aspects of new and foreign civilizations, changed perceptions of the individual behavior and the pictorial and literature expression of these fundamental eruptions.