Piotr Tafi¿owski: In Dialogue with the Other, Gebunden

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This book explores issues of social communication and interactions at the boundary between two civilizations through the lens of Louis Tuberon's Memoirs. Its primary aim is to identify the sources on which Tuberon drew, insofar as the text permits, and to trace the origins of the information he presents. Although he rarely refers explicitly to his reading and only occasionally names the authors he consulted, close analysis reveals his familiarity with ancient writers, the influence of anti-Turkish literary conventions, and both parallels with and departures from contemporary accounts. Tuberon also repeated contemporary rumors, relied extensively on oral testimony, and, most strikingly, often presented events from the Ottoman perspective, as if echoing Turkish propaganda. Disentangling these layered and often contradictory sources is the central task of this study.