This study compares the approach to Islam and the Turks of two close contemporaries, writers at the Burgundian court, writing around 1455. While the official chronicler Georges Chastelain adopted a venemously anti-Muslim stance and called for a crusade against the Turks, Bertrandon de la Broquière portrayed the Turks in efforts to understand their religion and different way of life.
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