{"id":22699,"date":"2020-09-16T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22699"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:42:12","slug":"noel-malcolm-rebels-believers-survivors-studies-in-the-history-of-the-albanians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22699","title":{"rendered":"Noel Malcolm, \u201cRebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a meeting-ground of Christianity and Islam; a channel through which Venice connected with the Ottoman Balkans; a place of interest to the Habsburgs; and a focus for the ambitions of neighbouring powers in the late Ottoman period. Albanians themselves could have many different identities.<br><br>The studies in this volume, by one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on Albanian history, range from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, taking in politics, social history, religion and diplomacy. Each is based on original research; the longest, on Ali Pasha, uses a wealth of manuscript material to tell, for the first time, the full story of the vital role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Other studies bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography.<br><br>Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a landmark publication for readers interested in south-east European history. It also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, &#8216;crypto-Christianity&#8217; among Muslims, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ranges widely over social, political, and religious history, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth<\/li><li>Offers new arguments about broader subjects such as religious conversion, &#8216;crypto-Christianity&#8217;, enslavement, and the development of myths of national identity<\/li><li>Makes a significant contribution to the history of the Mediterranean geopolitics of the Napoleonic Wars through a long study on Ali Pasha<\/li><li>Uses hitherto unused sources to shed light on many events and processes that are relevant to Ottoman history more generally<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preface<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Glimpses of Fifteenth-Century Albania: The Pilgrim Narratives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. The Kelmendi: Notes on the Early History of a Catholic Albanian Clan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. An Unknown Account of Ottoman Albania: Antonio Bruni&#8217;s Treatise on the beylerbeylik of Rumeli (1596)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Crypto-Christianity and Religious Amphibianism in the Ottoman Balkans: the Case of Kosovo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Early Modern Albanians in the Hands of the Inquisition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Pjet\u00ebr Bogdani&#8217;s Cuneus prophetarum (1685): The Work and its Religious Context<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. The &#8216;Great Migration&#8217; of the Serbs from Kosovo (1690): History, Myth and Ideology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Ali Pasha and Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. British Diplomacy and the League of Prizren, 1878-1880<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. The First Albanian Autobiography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Ernesto Cozzi (1870-1926): A Neglected Figure in Albanian Studies and in the History of Albania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, as Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Manuscripts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author Information<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel Malcolm, <em>Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford<\/em><br><br>Noel Malcolm read History and English Literature at Cambridge University, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Thomas Hobbes. He began his career as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he was then political columnist and, subsequently, Foreign Editor of <em>The Spectator<\/em>, and then chief political columnist of <em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em>. In 1996 he was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony&#8217;s College, Oxford, and in 1999 he was a lecturer at Harvard; he gave the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford in 2001. Since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and at Cambridge he is an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Trinity, and Gonville and Caius. He has published books and articles on, among other subjects, early modern philosophy and the history and culture of the Balkans. He was knighted in 2014 for services to scholarship, journalism and European history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 08 September 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>512 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/rebels-believers-survivors-9780198857297?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/rebels-believers-survivors-9780198857297?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Malcolm.jpg?fit=325%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54031,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54031","url_meta":{"origin":22699,"position":0},"title":"Call for Book Chapters: Alternatives to the Nation-State: Federalism, Autonomy, and Post-Imperial Imaginaries in the Mediterranean Long Nineteenth Century","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"11. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Workshop Date: September 24, 2026 - September 25, 2026 Location: Greece Subject Fields: Intellectual History, Modern European History \/ Studies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;Novosti&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HNet_Logo_with_tag.png?fit=1200%2C424&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54174,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54174","url_meta":{"origin":22699,"position":1},"title":"Yanni Kotsonis, &#8220;The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. 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