E Natalie Rothman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Natalie Rothman |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothman |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHMAN E N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8626-328X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres E. Natalie Rothman (bio), Kirsta Stapelfeldt (bio), Erdem Idil (bio), Vanessa McCarthy (bio), and Qaasim Karim (bio) KEYWORDS digital ontology, genre, early modern, translation, bilingual registers Our project aims to shed light on the trans-imperial nature of Mediterranean diplomatic chancery production by considering the multiple entanglements between Ottoman and Venetian genres, text…
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
Who counts? Ottomans, Early Modernity, and Trans-Imperial Subjecthood
Who counts? Ottomans, Early Modernity, and Trans-Imperial Subjecthood E. Natalie Rothman (bio) Keywords Early Modern, Ottoman Empire, Subjecthood Tucked deep into volume six of Hammer-Purgstall’s magnum opus, the Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, is an anecdote we can summarize as follows: in the summer of 1678, while the Ottoman army, waging campaign against the Tsardom of Russia, laid a second siege on Chyhyryn (central Ukraine), the grand ch…
Brokering Commerce or Making Friends
Afterword: Intermediaries, Mediation, and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
This essay thematizes the important contributions of the current volume to the study of non-ambassadorial diplomatic intermediaries in the early modern Mediterranean. It further suggests how attending to particular modalities of mediation, e.g. archiving and translation, might shed new light on processes of political, ethnolinguistic, and confessional boundary-making
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul
never expelled from it for his allegedly heretical beliefs, Polcri convincingly suggests interpreting the poem not only as a literary composition enriched with allegorical structure in the attempt to entertain its readers but also as a poem representing allegory with moral and religious significance that clearly reflects Pulci's intention to profess genuine religious cannons.Along with offering a new approach to re-evaluate Pulci's Morgante and s…
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
Rothman, E. Natalie. Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (The Material Culture of Debt), on Érudit
Dragomans and “Turkish Literature”: The Making of a Field of Inquiry
Theories of cultural and linguistic mediation have tended to posit intermediaries as conduits through which one culture/language either enters another unproblematically, or gets “distorted” due to intermediaries’ incompetence or self-interest. Both these perspectives presuppose stable, well-bounded, and coherent cultures/languages as what intermediaries purportedly mediate. Instead, this paper proposes an understanding of cultural and linguistic …
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul
Afterword
A fter feasting on the sumptuous fare offered by this collection of essays, encompassing as they do a great diversity of texts and contexts, how might we characterize the early modern relation's enduring legacy? As Megan Armstrong observes, "The relazione mode, as a literary device, invited the narrator to step in and mediate between matters astonishing, portentous, or novel, and a reader who needed not exhorting and moving, but convincing" (p. 1…
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
"Explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Author's Web site
Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
This study explores how Venetian and Ottoman elites rearticulated religious and linguistic boundaries in a process that spanned both metropoles and their Dalmatian borderlands. It focuses on the case of a teenage daughter of an Ottoman-Bosnian governor, who in 1622 left her hometown for nearby Venetian territory, converted to Catholicism, and ended up in the Casa delle Zitelle, a Venetian boarding school for elite girls in “moral danger.” Five ye…
Short Notices
Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and Crossings in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early modern observers rarely failed to comment on the perceived diversity of peoples, customs, and languages of Mediterranean societies. This diversity they sought to capture in travel narratives, costume albums, missionary and diplomatic reports, bilingual dictionaries, and a range of other genres of the 'contact zone.' Modern scholars, too, have celebrated the early modern Mediterranean's ostensibly multiple, diverse, and even 'pluralist,' 'co…
Becoming Venetian: Conversion and Transformation in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
For both (primarily local) Jews and (primarily immigrant) Muslims, becoming Catholic in seventeenth-century Venice entailed a prolonged process of social transformation and insertion into new relations of patronage and surrogate kinship. This article traces these converts' long trajectories after baptism and their ongoing relationship with a charitable institution, the Pia Casa dei Catecumeni (Holy House of the Catechumens). It shows how the Pia …
Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and Crossings in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early modern observers rarely failed to comment on the perceived diversity of peoples, customs, and languages of Mediterranean societies. This diversity they sought to capture in travel narratives, costume albums, missionary and diplomatic reports, bilingual dictionaries, and a range of other genres of the 'contact zone.' Modern scholars, too, have celebrated the early modern Mediterranean's ostensibly multiple, diverse, and even 'pluralist,' 'co…
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
Afterword: Intermediaries, Mediation, and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
This essay thematizes the important contributions of the current volume to the study of non-ambassadorial diplomatic intermediaries in the early modern Mediterranean. It further suggests how attending to particular modalities of mediation, e.g. archiving and translation, might shed new light on processes of political, ethnolinguistic, and confessional boundary-making
Becoming Venetian: Conversion and Transformation in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
For both (primarily local) Jews and (primarily immigrant) Muslims, becoming Catholic in seventeenth-century Venice entailed a prolonged process of social transformation and insertion into new relations of patronage and surrogate kinship. This article traces these converts' long trajectories after baptism and their ongoing relationship with a charitable institution, the Pia Casa dei Catecumeni (Holy House of the Catechumens). It shows how the Pia …
Dragomans and “Turkish Literature”: The Making of a Field of Inquiry
Theories of cultural and linguistic mediation have tended to posit intermediaries as conduits through which one culture/language either enters another unproblematically, or gets “distorted” due to intermediaries’ incompetence or self-interest. Both these perspectives presuppose stable, well-bounded, and coherent cultures/languages as what intermediaries purportedly mediate. Instead, this paper proposes an understanding of cultural and linguistic …
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres E. Natalie Rothman (bio), Kirsta Stapelfeldt (bio), Erdem Idil (bio), Vanessa McCarthy (bio), and Qaasim Karim (bio) KEYWORDS digital ontology, genre, early modern, translation, bilingual registers Our project aims to shed light on the trans-imperial nature of Mediterranean diplomatic chancery production by considering the multiple entanglements between Ottoman and Venetian genres, text…
Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
This study explores how Venetian and Ottoman elites rearticulated religious and linguistic boundaries in a process that spanned both metropoles and their Dalmatian borderlands. It focuses on the case of a teenage daughter of an Ottoman-Bosnian governor, who in 1622 left her hometown for nearby Venetian territory, converted to Catholicism, and ended up in the Casa delle Zitelle, a Venetian boarding school for elite girls in “moral danger.” Five ye…
Becoming Venetian: Conversion and Transformation in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
For both (primarily local) Jews and (primarily immigrant) Muslims, becoming Catholic in seventeenth-century Venice entailed a prolonged process of social transformation and insertion into new relations of patronage and surrogate kinship. This article traces these converts' long trajectories after baptism and their ongoing relationship with a charitable institution, the Pia Casa dei Catecumeni (Holy House of the Catechumens). It shows how the Pia …
Interpreting Dragomans: Boundaries and Crossings in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Early modern observers rarely failed to comment on the perceived diversity of peoples, customs, and languages of Mediterranean societies. This diversity they sought to capture in travel narratives, costume albums, missionary and diplomatic reports, bilingual dictionaries, and a range of other genres of the 'contact zone.' Modern scholars, too, have celebrated the early modern Mediterranean's ostensibly multiple, diverse, and even 'pluralist,' 'co…
Short Notices
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
"Explores how diplomatic interpreters, converts, and commercial brokers mediated and helped define political, linguistic, and religious boundaries between the Venetian and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Author's Web site
Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
This study explores how Venetian and Ottoman elites rearticulated religious and linguistic boundaries in a process that spanned both metropoles and their Dalmatian borderlands. It focuses on the case of a teenage daughter of an Ottoman-Bosnian governor, who in 1622 left her hometown for nearby Venetian territory, converted to Catholicism, and ended up in the Casa delle Zitelle, a Venetian boarding school for elite girls in “moral danger.” Five ye…
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul
Afterword
A fter feasting on the sumptuous fare offered by this collection of essays, encompassing as they do a great diversity of texts and contexts, how might we characterize the early modern relation's enduring legacy? As Megan Armstrong observes, "The relazione mode, as a literary device, invited the narrator to step in and mediate between matters astonishing, portentous, or novel, and a reader who needed not exhorting and moving, but convincing" (p. 1…
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul
never expelled from it for his allegedly heretical beliefs, Polcri convincingly suggests interpreting the poem not only as a literary composition enriched with allegorical structure in the attempt to entertain its readers but also as a poem representing allegory with moral and religious significance that clearly reflects Pulci's intention to profess genuine religious cannons.Along with offering a new approach to re-evaluate Pulci's Morgante and s…
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
Rothman, E. Natalie. Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (The Material Culture of Debt), on Érudit
Dragomans and “Turkish Literature”: The Making of a Field of Inquiry
Theories of cultural and linguistic mediation have tended to posit intermediaries as conduits through which one culture/language either enters another unproblematically, or gets “distorted” due to intermediaries’ incompetence or self-interest. Both these perspectives presuppose stable, well-bounded, and coherent cultures/languages as what intermediaries purportedly mediate. Instead, this paper proposes an understanding of cultural and linguistic …
Afterword: Intermediaries, Mediation, and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
This essay thematizes the important contributions of the current volume to the study of non-ambassadorial diplomatic intermediaries in the early modern Mediterranean. It further suggests how attending to particular modalities of mediation, e.g. archiving and translation, might shed new light on processes of political, ethnolinguistic, and confessional boundary-making
Brokering Commerce or Making Friends
Who counts? Ottomans, Early Modernity, and Trans-Imperial Subjecthood
Who counts? Ottomans, Early Modernity, and Trans-Imperial Subjecthood E. Natalie Rothman (bio) Keywords Early Modern, Ottoman Empire, Subjecthood Tucked deep into volume six of Hammer-Purgstall’s magnum opus, the Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, is an anecdote we can summarize as follows: in the summer of 1678, while the Ottoman army, waging campaign against the Tsardom of Russia, laid a second siege on Chyhyryn (central Ukraine), the grand ch…
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres
Toward an Ontology of Trans-Imperial Ottoman Chancery Genres E. Natalie Rothman (bio), Kirsta Stapelfeldt (bio), Erdem Idil (bio), Vanessa McCarthy (bio), and Qaasim Karim (bio) KEYWORDS digital ontology, genre, early modern, translation, bilingual registers Our project aims to shed light on the trans-imperial nature of Mediterranean diplomatic chancery production by considering the multiple entanglements between Ottoman and Venetian genres, text…
Toward Early Modern Archivality: The Perils of History in the Age of Neo-Eurocentrism
This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather than civilizational divides between supposedly distinct 'European' and 'Islamic' archivalities, it highlights mutability and commensurability as defining elements of a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, internally complex, and transactionally defined…
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