Join Jayda and Kerry as they venture into a discussion on what the Ottoman Empire was, and why it is still important.

The works referenced in the episode include Donald Quataert's “Why Study Ottoman history?” in The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, New Approaches to European History series (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Daniel Goffman's "Introduction: Ottomancentrism and the West" in The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002); "The Third Letter Dated Constantinople, 1 June 1560" in The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562 (Clarendon Press, 1968, first edition 1927); and Eve R. Meyer's "The Image of the Turk in European Performing Arts" in Süleyman the Second and his Time, Halil İnalcık and Cemal Kafadar, eds. (ISIS Press, 1993).