Plural Pasts: Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle

ISBN-13: 9780367882105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Claire Norton

Opis

In this book, narratives of the Ottoman/Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa (1600/01) act as a fulcrum around which to explore Ottoman textualities and literacy practices and the diverse roles that the various accounts had, including constructing identities, forging diplomatic alliances and legitimising political ideologies and geo-political imagination

Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Authority of Eyewitness Accounts Reconsidered

2. Fethnames: Not Just Literary Bombast

3. The Gazavatnames: Erasing Oral Residue and Correcting Scribal Error

4. The Gazavatnames: Re-Writing the Exemplar - Individual Scripta

5. Writers Reading: Reading the Gazavat-i Tiryaki Hasan Paşa with Katib Çelebi and Naima

6. Nationalism and the Re-Invention of Early Modern Identities

Conclusion: Making the Sieges of Nagykanizsa Morally Defensible

O autorze

Claire Norton is Reader in History at St Mary’s University.