Writing History in Ottoman Europe: (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)

Writing History in Ottoman Europe (Fifteenth – Eighteenth Centuries) Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 82 Volume Editors: Ovidiu Olar and Konrad Petrovszky The various forms of history writing of Early Modern Ottoman Europe were never the object of a comprehensive or comparative approach. The aim of the present volume is to fill in this major gap. Leading specialists in the field, many of them being Brill authors, have joined forces in an attempt to reflect the diversity of history writing in the Ottoman Empire, in its European part.Front Matter Preliminary MaterialIllustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Connecting Views – towards a History of Historiography of Ottoman Europe, 1500–1800 Authors: Ovidiu Olar and Konrad Petrovszky Pages: 1–19 Part 1 Framing Historical Time Chapter 1 Ancient History in Ottoman Universal Histories Author: Marinos Sariyannis Pages: 23–68 Chapter 2 Alexandros Mavrokordatos’ Baroque Encyclopedia of Time: from a Sacred towards a Universal History in the Late Seventeenth Century Author: Kostas Sarris Pages: 69–121 Chapter 3 Accommodation of the Past in Greek Orthodox Apocalypticism Author: Nikolas Pissis Pages: 122–151 Part 2 Creating Tradition Chapter 4 Appropriating the Pre-Ottoman Past of Rum in Early-Sixteenth Century Ottoman Rumeli: Kemālpashazāde’s ‘Bulgarian History’ in Context Author: Delyan Rusev Pages: 155–224 Chapter 5 Naming and the Making of Historical Memory: the Politics of Princely Sobriquets in the Wallachian Chancery of the Sixteenth Century Author: Marian Coman Pages: 225–266 Chapter 6 Words of Stone: War and Memory in Wallachia during the Long Turkish War (1593–1606) Authors: Ovidiu Cristea and Ramona Neacșa Pages: 267–295 Chapter 7 Between Hagiography and Historiography Commemorating the Saints and Remembering the Past in the Seventeenth Century in the Patriarchate of Peć Author: Marija Vasiljević Pages: 296–325 Part 3 Engaging with the Present Chapter 8 The Historiographical Work of Matthew of Myra: Stages of Conception, Motivations and Messages (Beginning of the Seventeenth Century) Author: Lidia Cotovanu Pages: 329–384 Chapter 9 The Unicorn in the City of Lust: the Ottoman Empire in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Hieroglyphic History (Constantinople, c.1706) Author: Ovidiu Olar Pages: 385–469 Chapter 10 Writing Contemporary History: Ottoman Turkish and Greek Narrations of the Morean Rebellion in the Late Eighteenth Century Author: Eleni Gara Pages: 470–503 Back Matter Index