Research Catalog

Title

Plural pasts : power, identity and the Ottoman sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle / Claire Norton.

Author

Norton, Claire, Dr.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Description

xii, 189 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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 identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of political ideologies and geo-political imaginations--it explores the cultural and socio-political significance the various accounts had for different audiences. In addition, it interweaves theoretical reflection with textual analysis. Using the sieges of Nagykanizsa as a case study, it offers a sophisticated contribution to ongoing historiographical arguments: namely, how historians construct hierarchies of primary sources and judge some to be more truthful, or more valuable, than others; how texts are assigned to particular genres based on perceived epistemological status--as story or history, fact or fiction; and the circular role that historians and their histories play in constructing, reflecting and reinforcing cultural and political imaginaries"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Routledge research in early modern history

Uniform Title

Routledge research in early modern history.

Subjects

• Power (Social sciences)
• Historiography > Political aspects
• Literacy > Political aspects
• Nationalism
• Turkish Occupation of Hungary (1526-1699)
• Kanizsa Castle (Nagykanizsa, Hungary)
• Belagerung
• Osmanisches Reich
• 1526-1699
• Kanizsa, Battle of (Nagykanizsa, Hungary : 1601)
• Intellectual life
• Hungary > History > Turkish occupation, 1526-1699 > Sources
• Kanizsa Castle (Nagykanizsa, Hungary) History > 17th century > Sources
• Power (Social sciences) > Turkey > History
• Historiography > Political aspects > Turkey > History
• Sources
• Literacy > Political aspects > Turkey > History
• Nagykanizsa (Hungary) > History > 17th century > Sources
• Hungary > Nagykanizsa
• Kanizsa, Battle of, Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 1601 > Sources
• Nagykanizsa
• History
• Turkey > Politics and government
• Nationalism > Turkey > History
• Politics and government
• Turkey > Intellectual life
• Geschichtsschreibung

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The authority of eyewitness accounts reconsidered -- Fethnames : not just literary bombast -- The Gazavatnames : erasing oral residue and correcting scribal error -- The gazavatnames : re-writing the exemplar : individual scripta -- Writers reading : reading the gazavat-i Tiryaki Hasan Pasa with Katib Çelebi and Naima -- Nationalism and the re-invention of early modern identities -- Conclusion: Making the sieges of Nagykanizsa morally defensible.

Call Number

JFE 17-6217

ISBN

• 9781472485342
• 1472485343

LCCN

2016045679

OCLC

965617481

Author

Norton, Claire, Dr., author.

Title

Plural pasts : power, identity and the Ottoman sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle / Claire Norton.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in early modern history

Routledge research in early modern history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1526-1699

Other Form:

Online version: Norton, Claire, Dr. Plural pasts. 1st edition. New York : Routledge, 2017 9781315600918 (DLC) 2016056775

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6217