{"title":"The Power of the Quill: Espionage under Charles V during the Tunisian Campaign","authors":"G. Varriale","doi":"10.18589/oa.1041507","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Ottoman expansion into the Western Mediterranean in the sixteenth century created an intense rivalry with the Habsburgs. This article examines this conflict from a different perspective, that of espionage. While, on the one hand, analysing the political changes in the Mare Nostrum in the 1530s, on the other, it scrutinizes Neapolitan intelligence, the most important information-gathering service of Emperor Charles V. Furthermore, the article specifically concentrates on the contribution of espionage to the Emperor’s campaign in Tunis against Khayr al-din Barbarossa.","PeriodicalId":43709,"journal":{"name":"Osmanli Arastirmalari-The Journal of Ottoman Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Osmanli Arastirmalari-The Journal of Ottoman Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1041507","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ASIAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Ottoman expansion into the Western Mediterranean in the sixteenth century created an intense rivalry with the Habsburgs. This article examines this conflict from a different perspective, that of espionage. While, on the one hand, analysing the political changes in the Mare Nostrum in the 1530s, on the other, it scrutinizes Neapolitan intelligence, the most important information-gathering service of Emperor Charles V. Furthermore, the article specifically concentrates on the contribution of espionage to the Emperor’s campaign in Tunis against Khayr al-din Barbarossa.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Ottoman Studies has been published continuously since 1980 and has carried the pluralist heritage of the Ottomans to contemporary academe by bringing together Ottomanists from different countries as well as from different disciplines and schools of thought. As the founder of the journal, the late Nejat Göyünç (1925-2001), stated in the preface he wrote for the first volume of the journal, the aim of the journal “is to become a means for the increasingly growing number of students of Ottoman Studies to get together in this journal, to encourage young members of the scholarly profession by publishing their interesting research …, to help them to become known, and to facilitate the presentation of their research to the scholarly world.”