Songs Of The Frontier Warriors

Author : Robert Elsie,Janice Mathie-Heck
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780865164123

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Songs of the Frontier Warriors by Robert Elsie,Janice Mathie-Heck Pdf

The Epics of Gilgamesh, Homer, Vergil, Shahnameh, are sources of our knowledge of religious beliefs. This epic is a welcome introduction to the spiritual world of the Albanians as they fought the crusades. The "Songs of the Frontier Warrior is the first English-language translation ever made of Albanian epic verse. As the product of a little-known culture and a difficult, rarely studied language, the Albanian epic has tended to remain in the shadow of the Serbo-Croatian, or more properly, Bosnian epic, with which it has undeniable affinities. This translation may thus be regarded as an initial attempt to rectify the imbalance and to give scholars and the reading public in general an opportunity to delve into the exotic world of the northern Albanian tribes. The present bilingual edition offers a broad selection of the best known songs. Also included are an introduction, a glossaries of terms and sources, and a selective bibliography.

Author : Mirjana Detelić,Lidija Delić
Publisher : Balkanološki institut SANU
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788671790918

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Epic formula by Mirjana Detelić,Lidija Delić Pdf

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810874831

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Historical Dictionary of Kosovo by Robert Elsie Pdf

As the seventh and probably last state to arise from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo is the newest country in Europe. For centuries, Kosovo, also known as Kosova, was part of the Ottoman Empire, and for most of the 20th century, it was a province of what was once Yugoslavia. After the military conflict in 1998-1999 and a period of administration by the United Nations, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008. Focusing not only on Kosovo's turbulent recent years, the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Kosovo also relates the country's rich culture and long history. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kosovo.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810861886

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Historical Dictionary of Albania by Robert Elsie Pdf

Albania is not well known by outsiders; it was deliberately closed to the outside world during the communist era. Now it has thankfully become free again, its borders are open and it can be visited, and it is increasingly integrating with the rest of Europe and beyond. Unfortunately, Albania has had its share of problems in the post-communist era; it's a land of destitution and despair, thanks in part to the Albanian mafia, which has turned the country into one of blood-feuds, kalashnikovs, and eternal crises. Yet, Albania is, in essence, a European nation like any other ...

Author : Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793621993

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The Byzantine Warrior Hero by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou Pdf

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have left their long-term imprint on Cypriot culture. One of the most impressive examples of this phenomenon is the preservation and transformative adaptation of Byzantine heroic themes, motifs, and symbols in Cypriot folk songs. By combining a variety of written sources and archaeological material in his interdisciplinary examination, the author reconstructs the image of the Byzantine warrior hero in the songs, recovering the mentalities of overshadowed social protagonists and stressing the role of subaltern communities as active agents in the shaping of history.

Author : Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319446424

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The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory by Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar Pdf

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt today. More than one hundred years later, the successors of the belligerent states in Southeastern Europe memorialize the wars as heroic highlights of their respective pasts. Furthermore, the metaphor that the Balkans were Europe’s “powder keg”, perpetuated at the beginning of the twentieth century in the face of these wars, was reactivated in both the West and the East up through the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The authors entangle the hitherto exclusive national master narratives and analyse them cogently and trenchantly for an international readership. They make an indispensable contribution to the proper integration of the Balkan Wars into the European historical memory of twentieth-century warfare.

Author : Andrew C. Rouse,David Atkinson
Publisher : SPECHEL Egyesület
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789631292923

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ETHNIC MOBILITY IN BALLADS by Andrew C. Rouse,David Atkinson Pdf

Ethnic Mobility in Ballads is the fourth volume in the new SPECHEL e-ditions series. It comprises studies about ballads that in different ways reflect the movement of ethnic groups, transcending and defying national borders in ways that range from the borrowing of ‘national’ heroes to popular interpretations (and distortions) of ethnicities not one’s own, to the transfer of humour from one ethnicity to another. The studies are the result of the 44th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung, held in 2014 in Pécs, a city in Southern Hungary (Cultural Capital of Europe, 2010) which was occupied by the Ottoman Turks after the defeat of the Hungarians at Mohács in 1526 and inhabited by them for over a century, so it is hardly surprising that several of the papers make up a distinct group about balladic Turks of one degree of reality or another, but a study about the Slovenian appropriation of a Hungarian ‘hero’ is also indicative of the spread of the papers.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0810853094

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Historical Dictionary of Kosova by Robert Elsie Pdf

Kosova or Kosovo is a dependent region of Serbia, part of the former country of Yugoslavia. It was part of the province of Dalmatia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1919.

Author : Michael L. Galaty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759122628

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Memory and Nation Building by Michael L. Galaty Pdf

This book is about how human societies form collective, i.e. shared, memories, with implications for how nations, ancient and modern, are built. Understanding how nations manipulate the collective memory making process is key to explaining the behaviors of various state and non-state actors, such as the Islamic State.

Author : David Aberbach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000708271

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The Hebrew Bible, Nationalism and the Origins of Anti-Judaism by David Aberbach Pdf

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages. As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone historical eras extending over several centuries. Following on from Aberbach’s previous work National Poetry, Empires, and War, this book argues that works of this nature – notably the Mujo-Halil songs in Albania, the Irish stories of Cuchulain, the songs of the Nibelungen in Germany, or the Finnish legends collected in The Kalevala – have an ancient precedent in the Hebrew Bible (to which national literatures often allude and refer), a subject largely neglected in biblical studies. The self-critical element in the Hebrew Bible, common in later national literature, is examined as the basis of later anti-Semitism, as the Bible was not confined to Jews but was adopted in translation by many other national groups. With several dozen original translations from the Hebrew, this book highlights how the Bible influenced and was distorted by later national cultures. Written without jargon, this book is intended for the general reader, but is also an important contribution to the study of the Bible, nationalism, and Jewish history.

Author : Aleksandar Pavlović,Gazela Pudar Draško,Rigels Halili
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351273145

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Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations by Aleksandar Pavlović,Gazela Pudar Draško,Rigels Halili Pdf

Identifying and explaining common views, ideas and traditions, this volume challenges the concept of Serbian-Albanian hostility by reinvestigating recent and historical events in the region. The contributors put forward critically oriented initiatives and alternatives to shed light on a range of relations and perspectives. The central aim of the book is to ‘figure out’ the problematic relations between Serbs and Albanians – that is, to comprehend its origins and the actors involved, and to find ways to resolve and deal with this enmity. Treating the hostility as a construct of a long-running discourse about the Serbian or Albanian ‘Other’, scholars and intellectuals from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania examine the origins, channels, agents and mediums of this discourse from the 18th century to the present. Tracing the roots of the two ethnic groups' political divisions, contemporary practices and actions allows the contributors to reconsider mutually held negative perceptions and identify elements of a common, shared history. Examples of past and current cooperation are used to offer a critical analysis of all three societies. This interdisciplinary publication brings together historiographical, literary, sociological, political, anthropological and philosophical analyses and enquiries and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of sociology, politics, cultural studies, history or anthropology; and to academics working in Slavonic and East European studies.

Author : Michael L. Galaty,Ols Lafe,Wayne E. Lee,Zamir Tafilica
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770913

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Light and Shadow by Michael L. Galaty,Ols Lafe,Wayne E. Lee,Zamir Tafilica Pdf

Employing survey archaeology, excavation, ethnographic study, and multinational archival work, the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful, creative ways whereby the men and women of Shala shaped their world: through dynamic, world-systemic relationships with the powers that surrounded but never fully conquered them. The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders, the malesore, in the full complexity of their lives, while also unveiling a new, deeper history for the region--a history that reaches back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. Light and Shadow tells many stories. Archaeologists, historians, and students of tribes, of empires, of imperial-indigenous relations, of blood feud, of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more, will find much here to digest. The people of Shala, to which Light and Shadow is dedicated, may serve as an example in our modern age, one in which persistent, tribal peoples still fight for their survival, and seek to preserve some degree of independence from capitalist economies bent on their incorporation.

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725868

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The Tribes of Albania by Robert Elsie Pdf

Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Robert Elsie provides comprehensive material on the 69 different tribes, including data on their locations, religious affiliations, tribal structures and relations, population statistics, tribal folklore, legends and history. Also included are excerpts from the works of prominent nineteenth and early-twentieth century writers, such as Edith Durham and Johann Georg von Hahn, who travelled through the tribal regions, as well as short biographies on prominent figures linked to the tribes. As the first book of its kind, The Tribes of Albania will be of interest to scholars and students of the Balkans, of southeastern European anthropology, ethnography and history.

Author : Panos Sophoulis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030559052

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Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 by Panos Sophoulis Pdf

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants. Far from being ʻlone wolvesʼ, these men operated within well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.

Author : Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455819

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Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe by Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger Pdf

The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.