Charlotte Colding Smith - Images of Islam, 1453-1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe

Many people have offered invaluable help and advice through the years of this project. Firstly, I would like to thank my PhD supervisor, Professor Charles Zika, for his guidance, critique, encouragement and patience. I would also like to thank the following people for their advice and assistance in regard to particular areas of my research: Catherine Kovesi; Dagmar Eichberger; Larry Silver; Philip Soergel; Lyndal Roper; and Robert Kolb. I would also like to thank the editors at Pickering & Chatto, especially Philip Good and Janka Romero.

My research has been aided by scholarships from the following organizations: the Caroline Kay History Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2006; the Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 20069; Gunther Findel Stiftung, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbttel, 20067; Herzog August Bibliothek, Summer School Scholarship, July 2007; DAAD (German Government Academic Exchange Service Scholarship), Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbttel, 20078; the Harold Wright Scholarship and the Sarah and William Holmes Scholarship to the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 2009; the Ernst Mach Fellowship, OEAD, University of Vienna, 201112; DAAD (German Government Academic Exchange Service Postdoctoral Fellowship), Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbttel and the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, 2012; and the ANZAMEMS Travel Bursary (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies), 2012.

I spent a significant time researching my PhD and book at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbttel. I would especially like to thank Gillian Bepler, Volker Bauer, Elizabeth Harding, Ulrich Kopp and Thomas Dring of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum print collection in Braunschweig. Further to this, I would like to thank the staff and students in the department of Geschichte des Sptmittelalters und der frhen Neuzeit at the University of Mannheim, especially Hiram Kmper.

At the British Museum, London, I would like to thank the staff of Prints and Drawings for their help and for making me feel welcome, especially Antony Grifiths, Stephen Coppel, Giulia Bartrum and Mark McDonald, as well as the staff of the departments of Coins and Medals, and the Middle East.

Furthermore, I would also like to thank the staff of the following libraries I have visited during the preparation of the manuscript: the Warburg Library, especially Professor Jill Kraye; the British Library, especially Giles Mandelbrote; the Wellcome Library; the Libraries of the School of African and Oriental Studies; the Bodleian and Sackler Libraries at Oxford; the Austrian National Library; the Albertina, Vienna; the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; the library and print collection at the Germanischen National Museum and Library, especially Rainer Schoch; the Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Berlin; Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen; and the Libraries at the University of Cornell.

In Australia, the staff at the following libraries and collections provided invaluable assistance: the Baillieu Library, especially the staff in the Cultural Collections departments for helping me with my research and employing me at various stages, and in particular Pam Pryde and Kerrianne Stone; the Prints and Drawings Department at the National Gallery of Victoria, especially Cathy Leahy; Monash University Library, especially Richard Overell; and the State Libraries of Victoria and New South Wales.

I would also like to recognize the support and friendship of staff and students in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, especially: Jennifer Spinks, Peter Sherlock, Rayne Allinson, Roland Burke, Liam Connell, Julie Davies, Hugh Hudson, Sam Koehne, Grantley McDonald, Dolly McKinnon, Leigh Penman, Rosa Saltzburg, Julie Davies, Claudia Guli, Anne Holloway, Hellen Merritt, Michael Pickering, Peter Russell and Andrew Stephenson.