Changing Subjects, Moving Objects Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700-1850
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age.Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the aid of many new sources, readers discover how certain men and women defined and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paderborn, Germany :
Brill Schöningh
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Balkan studies library ;
Volume 31. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758531006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Home or Away: Foreigners and Their Paths Into the Sources
- Who Were the Foreigners?
- Princely Subjects and Ottoman Subjects
- Sudiţi and Protégés
- Content and Structure
- Part I Foreigners at the Phanariot Court
- Chapter 1: Foreign Secretaries and Phanariot Princes
- Education, Letters of Recommendation, Networks
- Patrons and Clients: Princely Secretaries Between Phanariot Greeks and French Ambassadors
- What Did a Secretary Do?
- Adapting and Adopting a Way of Life
- From Secretary to Consul
- Cultural Intermediaries and Knowledge Transfer
- The Adventure and Danger of the Foreign
- Secretaries and Boyars: Foreigners and Their Reception
- Chapter 2: Princely Secretary François-Thomas Linchou
- Pour l'honneur de la nation: From French Linchou to Ottoman Subject
- Wax, Honey, and Cattle
- Linchou's Commercial and Diplomatic Dealings
- Re'âyâ v. françois
- Part II Loyalty and Subjecthood in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 3: Phanariots and Boyars at the Borders of Empires
- 'The Prince Has Died and at His Mourning We Should Rejoice.'
- In Search of the Greeks
- The Curialization of the Boyars
- 'For Him to be Again Alpha and Omega': Patronage and Kinship
- Identification and Loyalty
- Waiting for Peace: Subjecthood as an Oriental Embroidery
- Chapter 4: A Wallachian Dignitary at the Crossroads of Empires: Ianache Văcărescu
- Life and Family Background
- Circulation of Objects, Circulation of People: Ottoman Coffee v. European Coffee
- In shalwar and işlic to Vienna
- Being a Boyar: Luxury, Civility, and Prestige
- Far from Vienna: Working on an 'Ottoman History'
- Part III Seeking a Home: People and Destinies in Southeastern Europe.
- Chapter 5: Ottomans, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Wallachians, Moldavians: Subjects, Protégés, and Their Journeys Through the Empires
- Who Are 'The Subjects of the Prince'?
- Seeking a Patron on the Danube Frontier
- A House Here, Kin Over There: Multiple Belongings
- One Individual, Different Subjecthoods: Sudiți and Protégés
- Ahmet, Ahmet, and Ahmet: Ottomans and Christians
- Chapter 6: Dimitrie Foti Merişescu and His Journey
- Education
- Who is Dimitrie Merişescu
- The Context of the Narrative
- In the Shadow of Ioan Hagi Moscu
- Journeys Through the Deeper Reaches of a Country
- Journeys Into the Feminine Universe and the Mysteries of Love
- Love in a Time of Plague
- A Princely Wedding
- On the Road to Tsarigrad
- Post-Journey Destinies
- Part IV Women, Consumption, and Patronage
- Chapter 7: Women and Their Well-Being
- Women and Their Goods
- The Matrimonial Policies of the Phanariots
- Women and Luxury Consumption
- The Countesses: Seeking a Destiny
- Chapter 8: Women and Their Role in a Network: A Wife and Her Husband's Career: The Hartulari Family
- Elena Hartulari: Education
- The Linguistic Experience of Love
- Women and Social Networks
- Consumption and Sociability
- Consumption and Knowledge
- Epilogue
- References
- Index.
