Religion and Violence in the 17th century Habsburg/Ottoman borderlands
Please join the Center for Austrian Studies and HIST 8960 (Religion and Violence in the Premodern World) for this exciting virtual lecture. Professor Georg Michels (History - UC-Riverside) will present on his award-winning research, followed by a response by James Tracy (Professor of History, Emeritus - University of Minnesota-Twin Cities).
Please note: Zoom registration (see link above) is required; outside participants will be able to observe the lecture.
The readings (listed below) are available here.
Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher, “Introduction: Constructing a Rampart Nation—Conceptual Framework” in Liliya Berezhnaya, ed., Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism (New York: Berghahn Publishing, 2019), 3-30.
Wendy Bracewell, “Legitimating Raiding: The Uskok Code,” in Wendy Bracewell, The Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry and Holy War in Sixteenth-Century Adriatic, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 155-174.
James Tracy, “The Habsburg Monarchy in Conflict with the Ottoman Empire, 1527-1593: A Clash of Civilizations,” Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015), 1-26 (focus on 17-26).
Georg Michels, “Trans-Imperial Networks. Hungarian Exiles, Ottoman Power Brokers, and Popular Rebels,” in Georg Michels, The Habsburg Empire Under Siege. Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Kóprülü (1670-72) (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 210-250.
Georg Michels, “The World Turned Upside Down: The 1672 Revolt, Habsburg Collapse and the Ottomans,” in Georg Michels, The Habsburg Empire Under Siege. Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Kóprülü (1670-72) (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 251-296.
Optional
Wendy Bracewell, “Introduction,” in Wendy Bracewell, The Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry and Holy War in Sixteenth-Century Adriatic, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 1-18.