Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe / Ottomania Bd.10 (PDF)

Bent Holm, born in 1946. MA, Phil.Doc. Associate Professor, Theatre Studies, Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Research travels to Italy, France, and India. Dramaturg and translator of plays, especially by Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Goldoni. Doctoral dissertation about Comédie Italienne in a broad cultural/religious/iconographic context. Has published interdisciplinary studies on historical and dramaturgical issues in English, French, Polish, and Italian. Is for the moment preparing the English version of his book about eighteenth-century playwright Ludvig Holberg in a dramaturgical-historical perspective. Special research focuses are on relationships between visual arts and theatre; drama analysis and creative theatre production; theatricality and rituality. Lecturer at several international universities and research centres, most recently in Torino, Paris, Frankfurt, and Stockholm. Member of scientific committees and networks in Paris, Mantova, and Torino, among other cities. Publications include: "The Taming of the Turk: Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896". Vienna: Hollitzer, 2014 (= Ottomania 2).

Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, M.A., PhD. HM the Queen's Reference Librarian at the Danish Royal Collection. Former employments at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, The Museum of National History in Hillerød and The Danish National Art Library. Lecturer in art history and renaissance studies at Copenhagen University. Has published on royal portraiture, court artists, and European-Ottoman cultural exchange in the Early Modern era, in particular focusing on the Danish renaissance artist Melchior Lorck.