10 research outputs found
Domesticating Fears and Fantasies of ‘the East’: integrating the Ottoman legacy within European heritage
'Europe' has no fixed geographical, historical, religious or cultural boundaries. Claims for the existence of European civilization as a discrete construct are continually made yet dissolve on close scrutiny. Here, we examine these claims at one of the grandest points of existential crisis and belonging for Europe, the relationship with the 'Other within': Turkey, the Balkans and Ottoman heritage in Europe. Through a hybrid semiotic and Foucauldian analysis of catalogues of eight high-profile exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Belgium and Portugal we argue that an unsettled discursive struggle is at play, in which one 'Europe' articulates 'reconciliation' of profound civilizational difference while another, Ottoman, 'Europe' stakes a claim of right as an intrinsic component of what it means to be European in a contemporary context. We attempt to trace the role of museum marketing in the perennial accommodation/exclusion of the Ottoman Empire as an intrinsic component in the diversity of Europe’s cultural heritage
The Ottoman Story Today - Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, by Jason Goodwin. 351 pages, map, illustrations, index. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1999. (Cloth) ISBN 0-8050-4081-1; also published in London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1998. - The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923, by Justin Mccarthy. 406 pages. London: Longman, 1997. (Paper) ISBN 0-582-25655-0 - The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, by Donald Quataert (New Approaches to European History). 205 pages, illustrations, maps, index. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-63328-1 - The Ottomans, by Andrew Wheatcroft. 322 pages, index. London: Viking, 1993. (Cloth) ISBN 0-670-84412-8. Issued in paper with the title: The Ottomans: Dissolving Images
THE OTTOMAN SIEGE OF VIENNA, ENGLISH BALLADS, AND THE EXCLUSION CRISIS
The second Ottoman siege of Vienna (1683) generated a higher volume of English writing than any other seventeenth-century event involving the Ottomans. This article focuses upon ballads written in the immediate aftermath of the siege and relates them to the concurrent English political context of the Tory reaction to the exclusion crisis. Situating these ballads within the publication milieu of pamphlet news and political polemic, it examines the figures who produced them and the audiences they were aimed at. Following from this, it shows how the use of commonplace images and associations with the ‘Turk’ as a recurring figure in early modern writing allowed these ballads to find, or depict, synchronicities between the events of the siege of Vienna, and the English political scene