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02848aam a2200433 i 4500 001 578AFDFE7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 008 200721s2020 dcuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020028901 020 $a 0884024768 020 $a 9780884024767 035 $a (OCoLC)1182019395 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-mx--- $a n-mx--- 050 00 $a PN56 C618 K44 2020 100 1 $a Kefala, Eleni, $e author. 245 14 $a The conquered : $b Byzantium and America on the cusp of modernity / $c Eleni Kefala. 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 158 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Extravagantes 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Serendipities -- Byzantium, America, and the "modern" -- Tradition and theory -- Imparting trauma -- Texts and their afterlife. 520 $a "In the middle of the fifteenth century, ominous portents like columns of fire and dense fog were seen above the skies of Constantinople as the Byzantine capital fell under siege by the Ottomans. Allegedly, similar signs appeared a few decades later and seven thousand miles away, forecasting the fall of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco to the Spanish and their indigenous allies. After both cities had fallen, some Greeks and Mexica turned to poetry and song to express their anguish at the birth of what has come to be called the "modern" era. This study probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems, the "Lament for Constantinople," the "Huexotzinca Piece," and the "Tlaxcala Piece." Composed by anonymous authors soon after the conquest of the two cities, these texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic. They are the workings of creators who draw on tradition and historical particulars to articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Collective memory and literature $z Istanbul. $z Istanbul. 650 0 $a Collective memory and literature $z Mexico City. $z Mexico City. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern. 650 0 $a Psychic trauma in literature. 650 0 $a Conquerors in literature. 651 0 $a Istanbul (Turkey) $x History $y Siege, 1453. 651 0 $a Mexico City (Mexico) $x History $y To 1519. 651 0 $a Istanbul (Turkey) $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Mexico City (Mexico) $x Social conditions $y 16th century. 830 0 $a Extravagantes (Dumbarton Oaks) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043221.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=578AFDFE7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search