Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe. Representation, Transfers and Exchanges

0553000 - HÚ 2022 US eng M - Monography Chapter
Hladký, Ladislav - Stehlík, P.
The ʹTurkish Threatʹ and Early Modern Central Europe: Czech Reflections.
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe. Representation, Transfers and Exchanges. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021 - (Šístek, F.), s. 28-41. ISBN 978-1-78920-774-3
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z8015903
Institutional support: RVO:67985963
Keywords : Central Europe * Ottoman Empire * early modern Czech Lands * Turks in Moravia * image of the Turk * frontier orientalism * antemurale christianitatis
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The chapter identifies commonalities as well as specific features of the Czech experience and reflections of the Turkish threat in the context of Central Europe. It reviews the financial and military role of the Czech Lands in the defense of the Habsburg Monarchy and comments on the image of the Turkish threat present in the local discourse. Despite numerous similarities, the Czech case differs from that of other parts of Central Europe directly exposed to a long-term continuous contact with the Ottomans. In comparison, the examined phenomena are not as fundamentally imbedded in the Czech collective identity.
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