D’Istanbul à Grenade, fabrique des altérités musulmanes en pays bourguignons (1363-1482) : représentations, pouvoir, idéologie
(2024)
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- Bousmar, Eric
- Abstract
- At the end of the Middle Ages, when the Dukes Valois of Burgundy and their close associates—family members, advisors, and officials—delighted in acquiring or even composing manuscripts about the Muslim worlds, they were part of a broader movement in which Western Europe gradually established itself as a producer of narratives that reconfigured other spaces and societies. This thesis in history focuses precisely on the processes of "othering" the Muslim worlds within the political and secular elite of Burgundy. Indeed, using a narrative corpus that includes travel accounts, novels, and chronicles, I analyze the links between representations of the Muslim worlds and the sociopolitical ideology of the Burgundian state (15th century). My work goes beyond merely describing these collective imaginations; it examines how these representations were socially mobilized within the discursive productions and collective imaginaries of a state that was both expanding and consolidating its power. By choosing to mobilize a set of concepts and reflections from Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, this research aims to provide a new critical perspective on the relations between East and West at the dawn of the modern era. It situates itself within the long history of a world understood through the prism of hierarchical and racialized power dynamics. This study is defined as a social history of representations, straddling two historical periods and bridging different scholarly traditions. It explores the multiple ways in which Muslim otherness was represented and interrogates the collective imaginations of the Burgundian elite in light of its ideology and the intellectual performativity of that ideology. Finally, it invites a rethinking of medieval studies in relation to contemporary issues.
- Affiliations
UCLouvain SSH/IRIS-L/CRID - Centre de recherche en histoire du droit, des institutions et de la société
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Sghaïer, N. (2024). D’Istanbul à Grenade, fabrique des altérités musulmanes en pays bourguignons (1363-1482) : représentations, pouvoir, idéologie. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243384