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it contains, as other books also include a lot of these facts. In the memoirs, in which the author talks about her life with the skill of a professor of literature, history is told through many a detail, of a time that other sources do not mention. On the very fi rst page of her mem- oirs, Mina
Bosnia among Croatian intellectuals. Background and motivation In order to understand what motivated young Mažuranić to embark on his journey, a few words should be said about his background and the political trends in Croatia at the time. Our traveller was a member of a renowned family that produced
Salamiya was once an Ismaʿili stronghold may not have escaped folk memory, but the pioneering settlers in this (then) nomadic area were also motivated by the prospect of a more prosperous life and by exemption from tax and army conscription. Th e settlers followed the example of the Druzes of Mount
surprising.26 It is a common feature to the legitimizing rhetoric of all states; one may see for comparison the American constitution of 1787 that stresses the necessity of “domestic tranquility” and “general welfare.”27 The state’s quest for order and prosperity is motivated not only by the determination to
. oct. 4162. 36 hakan t. karateke Welfare People do not easily tend to revolt when they are given the chance to live their lives, earn a living, and practice their beliefs. Those who do revolt usually feel a sense of dispossession and see no hope of improvement, or are so motivated by idealism that even
1404 or even as late as spring 1405. As we have seen, this temporal distortion appears to have been motivated by a desire on the part of the chronicle’s author to make Mehmed’s rule over Bursa appear longer, thereby decreasing the time during which Mehmed was inactive and confined to Rum after Süleyman
, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth- Century France; Amelang, Honored Citizens of Barcelona; Joanne M. Ferraro, Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580–1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Litchfield, Emergence of a Bureaucracy. The historiography of the Italian states is par- ticularly
CHAPTER TWO URBAN RESPONSES TO THE IMPOSITION OF EXTRAORDINARY TAXES On 4 December 1662 a woman living in Aleppo went to court and made a serious accusation against a man resident in the same quar- ter, charging that he had entered her house four months earlier and raped her. Residents of the
ferreted away. Aft er all, it was reasonable to think that the prospect of a handsome ransom could have motivated not only Mustafa Ağa (who owned the three slaves) and his brother, but also, naturally, those directly concerned, who saw the success of the expedition as their only hope of freedom. Th e
solidarity of guild membership. Rather we may view this set of elements as comprising an ideal model that the court sought to uphold in order to ensure an equitable and just corporate life. By ideal model we mean a set of elements that in their entirety were rarely realized in a single guild but which