Edited EUGENIA KERMELI - OKTAY ÖZEL.:
The Ottoman Empire: Myths, realities and 'Black Holes'. Contributions in honour of Colin Imber. - Taschenbuch
2019, ISBN: 9789754283228
Paperback. Like New., 5, New. In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of sma… Mehr…
Paperback. Like New., 5, New. In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth., 6, Paperback / softback. New. As the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global symbol of nationalist conflict and ethnic division. But as Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over the region began well before 1914, emerging..., 6, Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 9pp photoplates Kosovo Univ. of California Press Berkeley [CA] (1999) orig. wrappers 23x15cm, xxii,378,(9)pp, PAPERBACK. "This text provides a comprehensive look at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a detailed study of national identity and ethnic conflict, the author demonstrates how myths and truths can start a war. Julie Mertus shows how our identity as individuals and as members of groups is defined through the telling and remembering of stories. Real or imagined, these stories shape our understanding of ourselves as heroes, matyrs, conquerors, or victims. Once we see ourselves as victims, Mertus claims, we feel morally justified to become perpetrators. Based on a series of interviews conducted in Kosovo, Serbia proper, and Macedonia, this book offers an extended treatment of the years leading to war in Kosovo. Mertus examines the formation of Serbian national identity, and closely scrutinizes the hostilities of the region. She shows how myth and experience inform the political ideologies of Kosovo, and explores how these competing beliefs are created and perpetuated" - Publisher's description., Univ. of California Press, 3, Cornell Univ Pr, 2019. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches., Cornell Univ Pr, 2019, 6, Paperback / softback. New. This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are promoted and created. By exploring how the movement developed, as well as efforts to create truth commissions in the Balkans, Colombia, and the US, it examines the processes through which political actors translate transitional justice into political action., 6, Istanbul: Isis, 2019. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 274 p. Acknowledgements Note on TransliterationIntroductionPart One. Saints and invention of tradition I. Facettes du culte de Sainte Parascève (Petka) d'Epivates et ses usages dans l'univers balkano-orthodoxe : du contexte prémoderne aux contextes modernes II. « Foi » et « nation » dans deux récits du transfert des reliques de Sainte Parascève (Petka, Paraschiva) de 1641 [Based on « Le transfert des reliques de Sainte Parascève (Petka, Paraschiva) de 1641 : Témoignages de deux personnages religieux contemporains », Revue d'Études Sud-Est Européennes (Bucarest, Académie roumaine des sciences), XLVII, 1-4, 2009, pp. 39-53] III. The Christian-Muslim religious symbiosis in Ottoman context: comparing two local cults of saint Therapon [Based on "The Christian-Muslim religious symbiosis according to F.W. Hasluck: comparing two local cults of saint Therapon", in: David Shankland (ed.), Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, vol. 2, Istanbul: Isis Press, 2004, pp. 159-181] IV. Saint(s) Théodore et le partage entre « nous » et les « autres » dans les Balkans : apparitions et miracles entre littérature et tradition orale Part Two. Saints and holy places as symbolic mediations of social and political change V. Nationalism at work. Economy, society, and the struggle for heavens in Melnik and Stanimaka [Expanded version of "Nationalism at (Symbolic) Work. Social Disintegration and the National Turn in Melnik and Stanimaka," In: Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer and Robert Pichler, eds., Conflicting Loyalties in the Balkans. The Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Nation Building, London: I.B. Tauris, 2011, pp. 225-250, 325-338] VI. Saints, Pilgrimages and the Religious Market: Considerations on the Religious Revival in Postsocialist Bulgaria [Based on "Aspects of Religious Globalization: Cases from Postsocialist Bulgaria", in: MESS Vol. 6. Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School, Piran/Pirano, Slovenia 2003 and 2004, Edited by Bostjan Kravanja & Matej Vranjes, Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za etnologjo in kulturno antropologijo, Zupaniceva knjiznica, 2005, pp. 167-182] VII. The Mount of the Cross: Sharing a cult place and building boundaries in the Rhodopes [Expanded version of "The Mount of the Cross: Sharing and Constructing Boundaries on a Balkan Pilgrimage Site", in Dionigi Albera & Maria Couroucli (eds.) Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean. Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2012, pp. 69-93] Part Three. History and Memory between knowledge and divine Intervention VIII. Constructing the Bulgarian Pythia: The Seer Vanga between Religion, Memory and History [Based on "Constructing the Bulgarian Pythia: Intersecting religion, memory, and history in the seer Vanga", in: Deema Kaneff, Frances Pine, Haldis Haukanes (eds.), Memory, Politics and Religion: The Past Meets the Present in Europe [Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, vol. 4], LIT Verlag Muenster, 2004, pp. 179-198] IX. Icône, mémoire, identité : l'agir de l'icône-qui-vole entre Bansko et Konce (République de Macédoine) X. The Struggle of Legends. Ismail Kadare, the works and lives of Parry and Lord, and Balkan nationalisms [Based on "Ismail Kadare's The H-File and The Making of the Homeric Verse. Variations on the works and lives of Milman Parry and Albert Lord", in: Stephanie Schwandtner-Sievers and Berndt J. Fischer (eds.), Albanian Identities: Myth and History, London: Hurst & Co, 2002, pp. 104-114], Isis, 2019, 6, Istanbul: Isis, 2006. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 384 p. Preface by Eugenia Kermeli & Oktay Özel ?Colin Imber, Historian of the Ottoman State? by Colin Heywood Colin Imber?s Publications Contributions Rosemary Morris, ?The epoptês Thomas at work? Keith Hopwood, ?Nicaea and her Eastern Neighbours? Heath W. Lowry, ?Some Thoughts on the Meaning of Gaza and Akin in Early Ottoman Usage? Oktay Özel, ?The Transformation of Provincial Administration in Anatolia: Observations on Amasya from 15th to 17th Centuries? Kenan Inan, ?On the Sources of Tursun Bey?s Tarih-i Ebu?l Feth? Evgeni Radushev, ?The First Ottoman Conquest of Buda in 1526, and the History of a Jewish Family? Leslie Peirce, ?In search of the Harem. Sexual Crime and Social Space in Ottoman Royal Law of the 15th and 16th Centuries? Christine Woodhead, ?Scribal chaos? Observations on the Post of Re?isülküttab in the Late Sixteenth Century? Linda Darling, ?Mediterranean Borderlands: Early English Merchants in the Levant? Gilles Veinstein, ?Le statut de musta?min, entre droit et politique? Rossitsa Gradeva, ?On Zimmis and Church Buildings: Four Cases from Rumeli? Nicolas Vatin, ?Comment on garde un secret: note confidentielle du grand-vizir Sokollu Mehmed Pasa en septembre 1566? Daniel Panzac, ?De la guerre de Chypre à la guerre de Crète: un entracte en Méditerranée (1572-1645)? Eugenia Kermeli, ?Children Treated as Commodity in Ottoman Crete? Colin Heywood, ?The Shifting Chronology of the Chyhyryn (Çehrin) Campaign (1089/1678) According to the Ottoman Literary Sources, and the Problem of the Ottoman Calendar? Edith Gülçin Ambros and Jan Schmidt, ?A Cossack Adopted by the Forty Saints: an Original Ottoman Story in the Leiden University Library? Palmira Brummet, ?Ottoman Cartoon Maps: Imagining Space, Identity, and Nation in the Istanbul Popular Press, 1908-1913? F. A. K. Yasamee, ?Ottoman War Planning and the Balkan Campaign of October-December 1912? Çigdem Balim, ?Writing Alternative Histories: Aitmatov?s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years?, Isis, 2006, 6<
