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Rather than include a bibliography in the book, where it may be a distraction (or become inaccurate after printing), I am keeping a list here, and referencing it in the book. Those so inclined may dive into all the texts that helped me bring Taliba's world to life.
Geography
http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/europe_15th_century.htm
Historical Map of Europe During the 15th Century.
University of Texas at Austin. From The Public Schools Historical Atlas edited by C. Colbeck, 1905.
https://orbis.stanford.edu/ The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Mysticism
Encausse, Dr. Gerard. Tarot of the Bohemians, 1914.
Foli, Professor P.R.S. Fortune Telling By Cards, 1907.
Noble, Vicki Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth Art and Tarot Harper San Francsico 1983
Place, Robert M. The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination Penguin Books 2005
Waite, Arthur Edward. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910.
Language
https://europeisnotdead.com/european-swear-words/
“Unexpected Exposures to Multilingualism in the Late Middle Ages: A Global Perspective by Travelogue Authors: Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, Georgius of Hungary, and Johann Schiltberger”
International Journal of Culture and History
ISSN 2332-5518
2022, Vol. 9, No. 1
Individuals
Buc, Philippe. “One among many renegades: the Serb janissary Konstantin Mihailović and the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans” Journal of Medieval History 46(2):1-14, February 2020.
Mihailovic, Konstantin. Memoirs of a Janissary, trans. Benjamin Stolz (Princeton NJ, Marcus Wiener Publishers, 2011). {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Rudrapatna, Naga “Fall of Constantinople” for course Between Moscow, Beijing and Delhi – Narratives of Europe and Asia taught by Mustafa Tuna, Duke University 2020. https://people.duke.edu/~mt125/Pages/BMBD/2020S/Rudrapatna-Conquest_Istanbul.pdf
Telcontar, Aldarion “Campaigns of Matthias Corvinus” War Fantasy 2023-11-09 https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2023/11/09/campaigns-of-matthias-corvinus/
Food
Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (2017). Nützenadel, Alexander; Trentmann, Frank (eds.). "The Global Consumption of Hot Beverages, c. 1500-c. 1900," in Food and Globalization: Consumption Markets and Politics in the Modern World. Oxford: Bloomsbury. pp. 37–56.
Health
Kjørstad, Elise “How Medieval People Addressed Pollution and Unhealthy Conditions in Their Cities” from Brewminate blog (2022) https://brewminate.com/how-medieval-people-addressed-pollution-and-unhealthy-conditions-in-their-cities/
Technology
Kievman, MJ. “The Making of Medieval Ink: an Unessay Project” History of the Book
https://web.colby.edu/bookhistory2018/2018/05/09/the-making-of-medieval-ink-an-unessay-project/
Lockett, Charles. “Industrial Pollution in the Middle Ages” from MedievalWare Blog (2021) https://www.medievalware.com/blog/industrial-pollution-middle-ages/
Roma
Achim, Viorel “The Roma in Romanian History” https://books.openedition.org/ceup/1550?lang=en
Benetou, Konstadina and Mauridou, Stavroula “The Reasons and Results of Social Exclusion of Roma Children in the Educational System. A Comparative Study in Hungary and Greece.” (Tei Patras, 2009). https://nereus.library.upatras.gr/formerpat/ptyxiakes/seyp/seyp_ke/2006-2010/8778pe.pdf
Crowe, David, and Kolsti, John. The Gypsies of Eastern Europe. Armonk,( New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 1991).
Groome, Francis. Gypsy Folk Tales (1899). https://sacred-texts.com/neu/roma/gft/index.htm
Kuznetsova, Ljalja. Gypsies: Free Spirits of the Open Steppe, Thames and Hudson, London, 1998
Leland, C.G. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1891). https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.gypsysorceryfort00lela/?st=gallery
Littell, Dolores. “Shamansim and Sorcery and the Gypsy Chovhani” (O NEVO DROM 2003). https://veshengro.tripod.com/o-nevo-drom/id39.html
Marushiakova, Elena and Popov, Vesselin. Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire University of Hertfordshire Press 2001. translated by Olga Apostolova
Muenster, Sebastian. Cosmographia 1544. Translated 1552 W. Marshall, London {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Myroniuk, Iryna. “Fortune Telling as Part of the Roma Culture” (2017) https://rozvitok.org/en/fortune-telling-as-part-of-the-roma-culture/
Romani Project, “Fact Sheets on Romani Culture” https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-and-travellers/factsheets-on-romani-culture
Hungary
Biro, Val. Hungarian Folk-tales (retold and illustrated) (1980)
Bonfini, Antonio Historia Pannonica: Sive Hungaricarum Rerum Decades IV (1690) {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Csukovits, Enikő. Hungary and the Hungarians: Western Europe’s View in the Middle Ages. Viella Historical Research 11. Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2018. 233 pp. https://www.academia.edu/92498942/Hungary_and_the_Hungarians_Western_Europe_s_View_in_the_Middle_Ages_By_Enik%C5%91_Csukovits_Viella_Historical_Research_11_Rome_Viella_Libreria_Editrice_2018_233_pp
Dinca, Dr. Adinel “The Lost Libraries of Transylvania: Some Examples from the 15th and 16th Centuries” WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 75TH IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Kalous, Antonin “Bohemians and Moravians in the Court of Matthias Corvinus” https://www.academia.edu/185033/Bohemians_and_Moravians_in_the_Court_of_Matthias_Corvinus
Orban, Aron “Astrology at the Court of Matthias Corvinus.” Terminus 17 (2015), 113-146
https://www.academia.edu/28468458/_Astrology_at_the_Court_of_Matthias_Corvinus_Terminus_17_2015_113_146
Papahagi, Adrian “Lost Libraries and Surviving Manuscripts: The Case of Medieval Transylvania” library & information history, Vol. 31 No. 1, February 2015, 35–53 https://www.ifla.org/past-wlic/2009/78-dinca-en.pdf
Szabo, Janos “BLACK ARMY OF HUNGARY [MERCENARIES OF MATTHIAS CORVINUS, KING OF HUNGARY AND BOHEMIA]” 2010, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Editor in chief: Clifford J. Rogers. Vol. 1. Oxford, p. 151–153. https://www.academia.edu/4152573/BLACK_ARMY_OF_HUNGARY_MERCENARIES_OF_MATTHIAS_CORVINUS_KING_OF_HUNGARY_AND_BOHEMIA_
Tardy, Lajos BEYOND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 14th—16th CENTURY HUNGARIAN DIPLOMACY IN THE EAST Translated by JÁNOS BORIS, SZEGE D 1978 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/229451391.pdf
Ottoman Empire
Akbar, Ali. The Book of China. (1516) {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Barbaro, Giosafat. Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alia Tana, in Persia, in India / et in Constaninopoli. Vinetia, 1543 Translated William Thomas England 1873 https://archive.org/details/travelstotanaper00barbrich {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Bazzaz, Sahar, Yota Batsaki, and Dimiter Angelov, eds. 2013. Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space. Hellenic Studies Series 56. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_BazzazS_etal_eds.Imperial_Geographies.2013.
Bulut, Ahmet Emirhan “A General Overview on the Stepped Tunnel in Pontos Region” 2020, MORS IMMATURA. In the Shadow of Amanus in Memoriam Hayriye Akıl https://www.academia.edu/44959589/A_General_Overview_on_the_Stepped_Tunnel_in_Pontos_Region
Chen, Yuan. Between Two Universal Empires: Ottoman-China Connections in the Sixteenth Century. (Yale InterAsia Connections Conference: Alternative Asias: Currents, Crossings, Connection, 2016).
Fodor, Pál. "Changes in the Structure and Strength of the Timariot Army from the Early Sixteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century". Eurasian Studies.
Kissling, Hans “The Ottoman Empire to 1774” in The Last Great Muslim Empires: History of the Muslim World, trans. F. R. C. Bagley (Marcus Wiener Publishers, 1995)
Lewis, Bernard. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1963)
Margoliouth, D.S. Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus (Dodd, Mead., New York 1907)
Masters, Bruce. The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918: A Social and Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Menage, V.L. and Colin Imber. Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire. (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).
Munroe, Nazanin Hedayat. “Silks from Ottoman Turkey.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000). http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tott/hd_tott.htm
Pierce, Leslie. Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire (Basic Books, 2017).
Seeman, Sonia Tamar. Sounding Roman: Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey. (Oxford University Press, 2019), 74-123. https://academic.oup.com/book/40401/chapter-abstract/347238913?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Spandounes, Theodore. On the Origin of the Ottoman Emperors, trans. Donald M. Nicol (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Lands on the Erythrian Sea
Thesiger, Wilfred. The Last Nomad: One Man’s Forty Year Adventure in the World’s Most Remote Deserts, Mountains, and Marshes. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1980 {PRIMARY SOURCE}
Wink, Andre From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective University of Wisconsin, Madison https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879375?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents
Ethiopia
Alvares, Francisco. (1961). The Prester John of the Indies; a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. {PRIMARY SOURCE}
