#oneabstractaday (okay two!)

Today I read Gül Şen's very well-structured and insightful study of an Ottoman chronicle.

"In 'Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā', Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, 'Making Sense of History' provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Naʿīmā’s chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author’s use of key concepts such as history and time."

https://brill.com/display/title/61781?language=en

I liked this illustration of the chronicle in question, depicted on a portrait of the Ottoman sultan.

#narratology #narrativity #historiography #ottomanhistoriograpy