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

Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683
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Total Pages : 241
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Download or read book Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 written by Laura Lisy-Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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