The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia
This article revisits the history of the Franciscan archives under Ottoman rule by focusing on archival documents, practices, and spaces in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica. Ottoman papers and archives preserved in the Franciscan spaces were often associated with Ottoman oppression. In th...
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| description | This article revisits the history of the Franciscan archives under Ottoman rule by focusing on archival documents, practices, and spaces in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica. Ottoman papers and archives preserved in the Franciscan spaces were often associated with Ottoman oppression. In this study, the author demonstrates that the documentary relationship between monasteries and Ottoman chanceries was not one-directional and cannot be characterized as oppressive. Franciscans actively engaged with the Ottoman documents and genres; they relied on the Ottoman vocabularies and legitimacy embedded in the documents, and subverted them at the same time, carving out their own physical and discursive spaces, which were tied to and yet different from the imaginaries of the Ottoman imperial order. The article emphasizes how examining archival narratives is located at the intersection of practices, texts, and spaces. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1ce828de47a94f6c997181d6c6d620a32025-01-02T05:57:53ZengDe GruyterComparative Southeast European Studies2701-81992701-82022022-12-0170464266610.1515/soeu-2021-0074The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman BosniaSekulić Ana0Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USAThis article revisits the history of the Franciscan archives under Ottoman rule by focusing on archival documents, practices, and spaces in the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica. Ottoman papers and archives preserved in the Franciscan spaces were often associated with Ottoman oppression. In this study, the author demonstrates that the documentary relationship between monasteries and Ottoman chanceries was not one-directional and cannot be characterized as oppressive. Franciscans actively engaged with the Ottoman documents and genres; they relied on the Ottoman vocabularies and legitimacy embedded in the documents, and subverted them at the same time, carving out their own physical and discursive spaces, which were tied to and yet different from the imaginaries of the Ottoman imperial order. The article emphasizes how examining archival narratives is located at the intersection of practices, texts, and spaces.https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2021-0074archivesottoman empiremonasteriesbosnia and herzegovina |
| spellingShingle | Sekulić Ana The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia Comparative Southeast European Studies archives ottoman empire monasteries bosnia and herzegovina |
| title | The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia |
| title_full | The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia |
| title_fullStr | The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia |
| title_short | The Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries of Ottoman Bosnia |
| title_sort | franciscan order of things empire community and archival practices in the monasteries of ottoman bosnia |
| topic | archives ottoman empire monasteries bosnia and herzegovina |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2021-0074 |
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