Such rites keep political antagonisms alive, without necessarily exacerbating them to the point of physical hostilities.

As often happens in many societies, many rites associated with war are staged by a single side, identifying the enemy, recounting their moral inferiority while glorifying the celebrant’s own community. This is undoubtedly ground in traumatic historical experiences resulting from centuries-old antagonisms based on religious and cultural values and considerations that over the centuries have impeded a proper evaluation and assessment of the role played by the Turks in the Mediterranean, in the Balkans and elsewhere. The Ottoman Turks were literally the terror of their enemies, and it was precisely this factor that the author claims induced him to write his book.Ĭelebrations of victories over the Turks are still very much felt especially in the Mediterranean and the Balkan states. These children were lining up for an exhibition to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the victory over the Turks in the second siege of Vienna of 1683. In his book The Ottoman Empire 1700-1922 published in 2000, Donald Quataert explains how in the summer of 1983, while in Vienna, he was struck by …lines of schoolchildren wound their way through the sidewalks of the Austrian capital. In A timeless gentleman - festschrift in honour of Maurice de Giorgio (pp.341-346). Malta and the celebration of victory over the Turks in the Siege of Vienna of 1683. Malta - History - Knights of Malta, 1530-1798įasts and feasts - Malta - 17th centuryĬassar, C. The second Ottoman siege of Vienna (1683) generated a higher volume of English writing than any other seventeenth-century event involving the Ottomans. Malta and the celebration of victory over the Turks in the Siege of Vienna of 1683Ī timeless gentleman : festschrift in honour of Maurice de Giorgio Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

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