The Sultan Speaks

McJannet, Linda

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“…Lastly, pan-European literary and artistic celebrations of the victory over the Ottomans at Lepanto underscore the ways in which literary culture intersected with the Mediterranean as an imperial, martial, conversionary, and cross-confessional space (Cacheda Barreiro & Novoa, 2018;Grootveld, 2018;Wright, 2016;Wright, Spence, & Lemons, 2014 (Adelman, 2008;Dimmock, 2017;Henke & Nicholson, 2016;McJannet, 2006;Smith, 2009;Vitkus, 1997;Vitkus, 2000;Vitkus, 2003). Beyond theater, the English produced a wide array of writings that exposed a deep-seated anxiety about religious change and the reformulation of English society stemming from interactions with religious others (Bassi, 2016;Dimmock, 2013;Grogan, 2014;Holmberg, 2016;MacLean, 2007;Robinson, 2007;Stanivukovic, 2007;Stanivukovic, 2016).…”

Section: A Conversionary Renaissance: the Renegade Crypto-jew Andmentioning

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The converting sea: Religious change and cross‐cultural interaction in the early modern Mediterranean

Clines

2018

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This review article explores conversion, construed as any change that fundamentally recalibrated the religious, political, and cultural landscape of the early modern Mediterranean. By expanding the concept of conversion to include shifts in collective identity construction, institutional anxieties, literary culture, intellectual traditions, and the visual arts, we can approach a more lucid understanding of the processes of religious change, acculturation, and cross‐cultural interaction in the early modern Mediterranean. We can then speak of the early modern Mediterranean as a converting sea: one that shaped the lives of its inhabitants who in turn shaped the cultural landscape of the Middle Sea itself.

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Section: A Conversionary Renaissance: the Renegade Crypto-jew Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

The converting sea: Religious change and cross‐cultural interaction in the early modern Mediterranean

Clines

2018

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“…29 Likewise, Linda McJannet noted that although early modernists have 'benefit[ted] greatly from Said's insights', they have increasingly 'differentiated both the early modern historical context and its discourses from the Orientalism Said described'. 30 Despite acknowledging the contrasts between the 17th century and later centuries, this position assumes that later representations were de facto manifestations of Saidian Orientalism. This is not such a radical departure from Said's formulation.…”

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‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

Roddan

2016

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Since its publication in 1978, Edward Said's Orientalism has had a significant impact on postcolonial studies in a range of fields. This paper assesses his impact on the historiography of Anglophone travel writing concerning Ottoman Empire during the early modern period. Said's analysis of the relationship between representational power and colonial authority remains relevant to our understanding of early modern travel texts.Said's epistemology raises significant issues for historians of early modern intercultural encounters. This article summarises recent debates surrounding early modern travel narratives. It contrasts doctrinaire applications of Said's theory with more recent, particularistic studies. It provides a much-needed survey of travel writing historiography that considers the continuing impact of Said's postcolonial thought on the study of early modern travel narratives relating to the Ottoman Middle East.In so doing, it explores the lack of fit between early modern travel narratives and Said's methodology. I explore the methodological problems thrown up by conventional applications of Said's epistemology to precolonial travellers' texts. Based on a wide-ranging survey of Said's oeuvre, the article demonstrates that, more than 30 years on, Said's work remains relevant to the historiographical challenges presented by early modern English travel writing about Islam.

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K nolles, R ichard

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2017

The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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Richard Knolles (late 1540s–1610), historian and translator, was born in Northamptonshire and attended Oxford University, beginning his studies at Lincoln College in about 1560. He became a fellow of the college and remained there in that capacity until at least 1572. Knolles then left Oxford to take up a post as master of the grammar school founded at Sandwich in 1563 by his patron, Sir Roger Manwood. After Sir Roger died in 1592, his son Sir Peter Manwood, who was well connected among the leading scholars and antiquaries of the time, encouraged Knolles to write and probably helped him obtain books and source materials from Robert Cotton and others. Under Sir Peter's patronage, Knolles completed three major works: he wrote The generall historie of the Turkes , published in 1603; and he subsequently produced two lengthy translations – of Jean Bodin's De la république and of William Camden's historical and topographical survey of Britain and Ireland, Britannia . Knolles never married and is not known to have travelled outside of England. He died in 1610, but may have lived just long enough to learn that Philemon Holland's translation of Camden's Britannia was to be printed and that his own was therefore likely to languish in manuscript. Knolles's reputation rests primarily on his Generall historie of the Turkes , a monumental work of narrative synthesis that reached almost 1,200 pages in its first folio edition of 1603. It was admired by Samuel Johnson, who (in The Rambler , 18 May 1751) praised its style as ‘pure, nervous, elevated, and clear’, and it was a favourite of Lord Byron who, writing shortly before his death at Missolonghi in 1824, declared, ‘Old Knolles was one of the first books that gave me pleasure when I was a child; and I believe it had much influence on my future wishes to visit the Levant, and gave perhaps the Oriental colouring which is observed in my poetry.’

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The Sultan Speaks

Cited by 57 publications

References 89 publications

The converting sea: Religious change and cross‐cultural interaction in the early modern Mediterranean

The converting sea: Religious change and cross‐cultural interaction in the early modern Mediterranean

‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

K nolles, R ichard

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