THE OTTOMAN SIEGE OF VIENNA, ENGLISH BALLADS, AND THE EXCLUSION CRISIS

The second Ottoman siege of Vienna (1683) generated a higher volume of English writing than any other seventeenth-century event involving the Ottomans. This article focuses upon ballads written in the immediate aftermath of the siege and relates them to the concurrent English political context of th...

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Published inThe Historical journal Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 53 - 80
Main Author INGRAM, ANDERS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2014
Subjects
17th century
Audience
Audiences
Austria
Ballads
Christianity
Early modern history
England
English
European history
Language history
Monarchy
Music
Ottoman Empire
Parliaments
Polemics
Political crises
Political discourse
Political factors
Political history
Politics
Protestantism
Sieges
Tyranny
United Kingdom
Writing
England
Ottoman Empire
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Summary:The second Ottoman siege of Vienna (1683) generated a higher volume of English writing than any other seventeenth-century event involving the Ottomans. This article focuses upon ballads written in the immediate aftermath of the siege and relates them to the concurrent English political context of the Tory reaction to the exclusion crisis. Situating these ballads within the publication milieu of pamphlet news and political polemic, it examines the figures who produced them and the audiences they were aimed at. Following from this, it shows how the use of commonplace images and associations with the ‘Turk’ as a recurring figure in early modern writing allowed these ballads to find, or depict, synchronicities between the events of the siege of Vienna, and the English political scene.
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ISSN:0018-246X
1469-5103
DOI:10.1017/S0018246X13000484