Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

6/1/1981 - 8/31/1983

Funding Totals

$18,000.00 (approved)
$18,000.00 (awarded)


Edition and Translation of Georgius de Hungaria's Tractatus De Moribus, Condictionibus, Et Nequicia Turcorum

FAIN: RL-*1659-81

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Frank Manley (Project Director: June 1980 to October 1990)

To support preparation and translation of the writings of a Dominican monk, Georgius de Hungaria, who was taken to Turkey by slavers as a child and wrote of his Turkish masters. The work, written in 1480, describes the Ottoman empire at its zenith.