CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Sekulic, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Boundary Entrepreneurs: Manipulating Difference on the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman-Venetian Border |
| Summary | This thesis explores how different groups on the Ottoman-Venetian border in Dalmatia engaged in boundary-crossing and negotiations during the second half of the seventeenth century. The thesis focuses on the Morlacchi population and how they navigated complex networks of exchange and rivalry in establishing their power niches, as well as how other actors built their power claims based on their presence at the borderland. These interactions speak to the interdependency, shifting loyalties and precarious intimacy between all of the actors – Morlacchi or imperial and ecclesiastical elites, suggesting in turn that what in sources often reads as differences, clashes, or antagonisms actually belies strategies in political, economic, and inter- and intra-confessional competition. In doing so, it is possible to go beyond monolithic categories of identification when explaining what went on in such early modern spaces, and observe how boundary making and relationships between groups and individuals were a dynamic, ongoing process rather than a given reality. |
| Supervisor | Esmer, Tolga; Krstic, Tijana |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/sekulic_ana.pdf |
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