CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Merrigan, Tara |
|---|---|
| Title | Captive as Orientalist: A Genre Study of Konstantin Mihailovic and Bartholomew Georgijevic's Sixteenth-Century Texts |
| Summary | Captive narratives are an important source of information for scholarship on European-Ottoman relations in the early modern period. This thesis focuses on the sixteenth-century works by two former captives, Konstantin Mihailović and Bartholomew Georgijević, and argues that these texts, along with other so-called captive narratives, should be considered as an inflection point between the thinly factual, polemical writings against Islam seen in medieval Europe and the emergent academic Orientalism and philological study of the seventeenth century. This thesis therefore examines the genre affiliations and literary construction of Mihailović and Georgijević’s texts, focusing on historiographical methods, autobiographical limitations, and multilingualism, and thereby adding greater detail to scholarly understanding of the multi-genre qualities of early modern captive narratives. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Balázs, Adde, Éloïse |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/merrigan_tara.pdf |
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