Rebels, Believers, Survivors
Studies in the History of the Albanians
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 July 2020
- ISBN 9780198857297
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 245x165x35 mm
- Weight 878 g
- Language English 217
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Short description:
Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th century to the 20th, through stories of Italian pilgrims, British diplomats, Albanian village girls converting to Islam, Muslims practising secret Christianity, and Ottoman men enslaving fellow citizens.
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Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a meeting-ground of Christianity and Islam; a channel through which Venice connected with the Ottoman Balkans; a place of interest to the Habsburgs; and a focus for the ambitions of neighbouring powers in the late Ottoman period. Albanians themselves could have many different identities.
The studies in this volume, by one of the world's leading experts on Albanian history, range from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, taking in politics, social history, religion and diplomacy. Each is based on original research; the longest, on Ali Pasha, uses a wealth of manuscript material to tell, for the first time, the full story of the vital role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Other studies bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography.
Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a landmark publication for readers interested in south-east European history. It also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, 'crypto-Christianity' among Muslims, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.
The variety of essays in this book undoubtedly offers a range of insights into the history and culture of the Albanian people.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Glimpses of Fifteenth-Century Albania: The Pilgrim Narratives
The Kelmendi: Notes on the Early History of a Catholic Albanian Clan
An Unknown Account of Ottoman Albania: Antonio Bruni's Treatise on the beylerbeylik of Rumeli (1596)
Crypto-Christianity and Religious Amphibianism in the Ottoman Balkans: the Case of Kosovo
Early Modern Albanians in the Hands of the Inquisition
Pjetër Bogdani's Cuneus prophetarum (1685): The Work and its Religious Context
The 'Great Migration' of the Serbs from Kosovo (1690): History, Myth and Ideology
Ali Pasha and Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
British Diplomacy and the League of Prizren, 1878-1880
The First Albanian Autobiography
Ernesto Cozzi (1870-1926): A Neglected Figure in Albanian Studies and in the History of Albania
Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, as Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century
List of Manuscripts
Born Under Saturn - The Character & Conduct of Artists - A Documented History from Antiquity to the French Revolution: Geographical Data
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