1st Edition
Plural Pasts Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle
By Claire Norton
Copyright 2017
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the diverse roles that the various accounts served – construction of... Read more
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
Biography
Claire Norton is Reader in History at St Mary’s University.
