Colin Heywood, Ph.D. (London, 1970) is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Hull. He has published numerous studies and articles on Ottoman history and historiography and on Mediterranean and maritime history in the late medieval and early modern period. Ivan Parvev, Ph.D. (1993), Habil. D. (2011), University of Sofia, is Professor of Early Modern Balkan history at that university. He has published monographs and articles on Habsburg-Balkan relations, including Land in Sicht. Südosteuropa in den deutschen politischen Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts (Zabern, 2008).

• PrefaceAbout the AuthorsIntroductionPart 1: The War of 1683–1699 – Political Strategies and Balance of Power in Europe1On the Road to Carlowitz: Visions of Ottoman Diplomacy in the Letters of Thomas Coke, 1691–1694Jean-Paul A. Ghobrial2‘This Great Work’: Lord Paget and the Processes of English Mediating Diplomacy in the Latter Stages of the Sacra Lega War, 1697–1698Colin Heywood3The Spoils of Peace: What the Dutch Got Out of CarlowitzMaurits H. van den Boogert4The War of 1683–1699 and the Beginning of the Eastern QuestionIvan ParvevPart 2: The Sacra Lega War Viewed by the Sublime Porte5Ottoman Diplomacy in the First Years (1683–1685) of the Ottoman “Long War”Abdullah Güllüoğlu6Ottoman Subjects, Habsburg Allies. The Reaya of the Chiprovtsi Region (Northwestern Bulgaria) on the Front Line, 1688–1690Dzheni Ivanova7Ottoman Knowledge of the Imperial CommandersHans Georg MajerPart 3: Time for War, Time for Peace8From Slankamen to Zenta: The Austrian War Effort in the East during the 1690sLothar Höbelt9The Habsburgs and the Holy League: Religion or Realpolitik?Charles Ingrao10From the ‘Eternal Peace’ to the Treaty of Carlowitz: Relations between Russia, the Sublime Porte and the Crimean Khanate (1686–1699)Kirill Kochegarov11The Treaty of Carlowitz in Polish Memory – A Date Better Forgotten?Dariusz Kołodziejczyk12The Symbolic Making of the Peace of Carlowitz: The Border Crossing of Count Wolfgang IV of Oettingen-Wallerstein during His Mission as Imperial Grand Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (1699–1701)Arno Strohmeyer13The Treaty of Carlowitz and its Impact on Russian-Ottoman Relations, 1700–1710Tatiana BazarovaPart 4: Early Modern Demographic and Economic Context14War and Demography: The Case of Hungary 1521–1718Zoltán Györe15Venice after Carlowitz: Change and Challenge in Eighteenth-century Venetian PolicyErica IaniroConcluding RemarksIndex