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Albania and Kosovo have long, fascinating histories of connection with the wider European world. These essays explore this history from the 15th century to the 20th, through stories of Italian pilgrims, British diplomats, Albanian village girls converting to Islam, Muslims practising secret Christianity, and Ottoman men enslaving fellow citizens.

Note biographique

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 The Spectator, and then chief political columnist of The Daily Telegraph. In 1996 he was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony'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.

Table des matières

• Preface


• 1: Glimpses of Fifteenth-Century Albania: The Pilgrim Narratives


• 2: The Kelmendi: Notes on the Early History of a Catholic Albanian Clan


• 3: An Unknown Account of Ottoman Albania: Antonio Bruni's Treatise on the beylerbeylik of Rumeli (1596)


• 4: Crypto-Christianity and Religious Amphibianism in the Ottoman Balkans: the Case of Kosovo


• 5: Early Modern Albanians in the Hands of the Inquisition


• 6: PjetÃ'r Bogdani's Cuneus prophetarum (1685): The Work and its Religious Context


• 7: The 'Great Migration' of the Serbs from Kosovo (1690): History, Myth and Ideology


• 8: Ali Pasha and Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars


• 9: British Diplomacy and the League of Prizren, 1878-1880


• 10: The First Albanian Autobiography


• 11: Ernesto Cozzi (1870-1926): A Neglected Figure in Albanian Studies and in the History of Albania


• 12: Myths of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements, as Expressed in the Works of Albanian Writers in America in the Early Twentieth Century


• List of Manuscripts

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