Claire Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3646867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's University College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The point is, history sells’
In this article we aim to work in the political direction that Martin Davies’s critique of history-focused-behaviour opened up. More specifically, we apply Davies’s thinking to a discussion of recent UK governments’ heritage policies and preferred types of heritage discourse. After an initial overview of how heritage is instrumentalised for political and financial purposes in the present, we move on to discuss two case studies of heritage work in…
Chapter 2 Diversity is Not Enough
Racism, microaggressions, sexism, gendered, financial, ableism, and many more facets of discrimination are legacies still prevalent within the field of archaeology, perpetuating an environment of exclusion. Graduate students are particularly cognizant of the ways in which exclusion impacts their academic experiences and their choices to continue pursuing archaeology professionally and academically. Despite the rise of critical and collaborative a…
The Intersections of Structural Violence and Social Agency in Plantation Geographies
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Iconographs of Power or Tools of Diplomacy? Ottoman Fethnames
Historians of Christian European diplomacy have tended to approach Ottoman diplomatic practice from a rather Eurocentric perspective in that they presuppose initial Ottoman non-involvement in the development of the modern diplomatic system followed by a reluctant adoption of it when faced with a period of economic, military and political decline. In this article I read two fethnames [victory missives] sent to the Queen of England, Elizabeth i to …
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
Liminal Space in the Early Modern Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg marches were a fluid geographical space that stretched from the Dalmatian coast eastwards through what is today Croatia and Hungary, up to the Crimean Black Sea coast. This border zone has frequently been characterized as a line dividing two qualitatively different, antagonistic, and competing empires: the Christian Habsburgs and the Muslim Ottomans. As such this frontier has been depicted a…
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Ottoman-Venetian Encounters. Stephen Ortega. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiv + 198 pp. $109.95. - Volume 68 Issue 4
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
Sacred sites, severed heads and prophetic visions
Employing Dagenais’ performative model of textual production and his notion of ethical reading, this article analyses how scribal re-inscription and intertextual references to kesik-baş (severed head) and menakibname (accounts of heroic and miraculous deeds) effectively foreground or elide the prophetic dreams and miraculous saint-like powers of an Ottoman commander in a corpus of early modern Ottoman gazavatname (campaign) manuscripts. In doing …
Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe
Histories, both those written in earlier periods and those written today, are positioned, subjective texts that, through their interpretation of a variety of sources, ultimately reflect the ideolog
East–West Dichotomy? Historiography as a ‘Clash of Civilisations’
Lust, Greed, Torture, and Identity
The motives behind an individual's conversion to another religion are complex and frequently contested. The moment of conversion for the convert symbolizes the beginning of a new life and new opportunities; yet for the community he or she leaves, it is often interpreted as an act of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English …
Chronicling the Crusades
Ottoman Fortresses in Europe
Re‐Orienting the Renaissance
Debunking myths of the Ottoman empire
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
Lust, Greed, Torture, and Identity
The motives behind an individual's conversion to another religion are complex and frequently contested. The moment of conversion for the convert symbolizes the beginning of a new life and new opportunities; yet for the community he or she leaves, it is often interpreted as an act of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English …
Debunking myths of the Ottoman empire
Chronicling the Crusades
Ottoman Fortresses in Europe
Re‐Orienting the Renaissance
Lust, Greed, Torture, and Identity
The motives behind an individual's conversion to another religion are complex and frequently contested. The moment of conversion for the convert symbolizes the beginning of a new life and new opportunities; yet for the community he or she leaves, it is often interpreted as an act of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English …
East–West Dichotomy? Historiography as a ‘Clash of Civilisations’
Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe
Histories, both those written in earlier periods and those written today, are positioned, subjective texts that, through their interpretation of a variety of sources, ultimately reflect the ideolog
Sacred sites, severed heads and prophetic visions
Employing Dagenais’ performative model of textual production and his notion of ethical reading, this article analyses how scribal re-inscription and intertextual references to kesik-baş (severed head) and menakibname (accounts of heroic and miraculous deeds) effectively foreground or elide the prophetic dreams and miraculous saint-like powers of an Ottoman commander in a corpus of early modern Ottoman gazavatname (campaign) manuscripts. In doing …
Liminal Space in the Early Modern Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands
The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg marches were a fluid geographical space that stretched from the Dalmatian coast eastwards through what is today Croatia and Hungary, up to the Crimean Black Sea coast. This border zone has frequently been characterized as a line dividing two qualitatively different, antagonistic, and competing empires: the Christian Habsburgs and the Muslim Ottomans. As such this frontier has been depicted a…
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Ottoman-Venetian Encounters. Stephen Ortega. Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiv + 198 pp. $109.95. - Volume 68 Issue 4
In the Service of Technocratic Managerialism? History in UK Universities
This article discusses the conceptualisation, organisation and philosophical orientation of academic history culture in UK higher education. It problematises the extent to which a dominant history culture in UK universities implies and uncritically reproduces normative understandings about the subject; about its epistemological standing, sociopolitical functions, and the presumed cultural value of the discipline practices that students learn to p…
Iconographs of Power or Tools of Diplomacy? Ottoman Fethnames
Historians of Christian European diplomacy have tended to approach Ottoman diplomatic practice from a rather Eurocentric perspective in that they presuppose initial Ottoman non-involvement in the development of the modern diplomatic system followed by a reluctant adoption of it when faced with a period of economic, military and political decline. In this article I read two fethnames [victory missives] sent to the Queen of England, Elizabeth i to …
Thinking the past politically
This article explores the socio-political, economic and legal implications of what counts as historical knowledge. Academic history has long been practiced as if its value and authority reside in its ability to produce truth, but pretending that that history occupies an epistemologically foundational position is an illusion that needs to be abandoned. History is a discourse whose sources of cultural power are ultimately social and institutional. …
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Intersections of Structural Violence and Social Agency in Plantation Geographies
Chapter 2 Diversity is Not Enough
Racism, microaggressions, sexism, gendered, financial, ableism, and many more facets of discrimination are legacies still prevalent within the field of archaeology, perpetuating an environment of exclusion. Graduate students are particularly cognizant of the ways in which exclusion impacts their academic experiences and their choices to continue pursuing archaeology professionally and academically. Despite the rise of critical and collaborative a…
The point is, history sells’
In this article we aim to work in the political direction that Martin Davies’s critique of history-focused-behaviour opened up. More specifically, we apply Davies’s thinking to a discussion of recent UK governments’ heritage policies and preferred types of heritage discourse. After an initial overview of how heritage is instrumentalised for political and financial purposes in the present, we move on to discuss two case studies of heritage work in…
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