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: Pjetër 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
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.
The variety of essays in this book undoubtedly offers a range of
insights into the history and culture of the Albanian people.
*Gianfranco Bria, Sapienza Università di Roma, EURASIAN
Studies*
This collection of essays is meticulously researched. ...Malcolm
unpicks myths that have grown up around the Albanians, their
customs and values, their movements and migrations and he
introduces us to innovative and important literary and political
figures...Noel Malcolm's book is the best resource you can find on
these different aspects of early Albanian history and cultural
origins. He documents and lays bare the diplomatic background and
interweavings in Albania's struggle for survival, and eventual
independence in the early 20th century.
*Morelle Smith, Poet and Writer, Scottish Review*
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