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Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 - Couverture rigide

Lisy-Wagner, Laura

 
9781409431657: Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1409431657 ISBN 13 : 9781409431657
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world. Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 works through the descriptive and ethnographic texts produced by Czech speakers about Islam and the Ottoman Empire to show how they used this discourse to create Czech identities. Rather than simply constructing identity in opposition to the Islamic Other, Laura Lisy-Wagner shows how these authors played the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires off each other, creating an autonomous space for themselves in between. Lisy-Wagner introduces sources that are new to English-language historiography and uses them in a way that is new to Czech historiography as well. The chapters are organized based on different categories of agents-travelers, ethnographers, religious leaders, artists, and political revolutionaries-whose voices cast ideas of Europe and Czech identity in the early modern period in a new and different light.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laura Lisy-Wagner is Assistant Professor of History at San Francisco State University, USA.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1409431657
ISBN 13 
9781409431657
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
214
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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