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An Ottoman Tragedy - History and Historiography at Play (Hardcover)
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An Ottoman Tragedy - History and Historiography at Play (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 50
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In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the
Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma--the assassination
of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent
abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start--that a scholar
pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax "an Ottoman
Tragedy." Under Gabriel Piterberg's deft analysis, this period of
crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of the
Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century--an opportunity to
observe the dialectical play between history as an occurrence and
experience and history as a recounting of that experience.
Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman narration of this fraught period
from the foundational text, produced in the early 1620s, to the
composition of the state narrative at the end of the seventeenth
century. His work brings theories of historiography into dialogue
with the actual interpretation of Ottoman historical texts, and
forces a rethinking of both Ottoman historiography and the Ottoman
state in the seventeenth century. A provocative reinterpretation of
a major event in Ottoman history, this work reconceives the
relation between historiography and history.
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