THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER IN EARLY MODERN IMPERIAL DISCOURSES: VENETIAN DISCOURSE ABOUT ISTRIA AND ENGLISH DISCOURSE ABOUT IRELAND

Sergey Baigushev (), Evgeny Khvalkov (), Feliks Levin (), Anastasia Novikova (), Adrian Selin (), Aleksandra Shisterova (), Maksim Shkil () and Irina Yakovleva ()
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Sergey Baigushev: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Evgeny Khvalkov: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Feliks Levin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anastasia Novikova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Adrian Selin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Aleksandra Shisterova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Maksim Shkil: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Irina Yakovleva: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This paper is focused on the image of the Other in early modern European imperial discourses as exemplified by Venetian discourse about Istria and English discourse about Ireland, which have not been previously compared, in the narratives by Pietro Coppo, Fynes Moryson, John Davies and Barnabe Rich. The authors of the article have analyzed mechanisms of construction of the Image of the Other and political or rhetorical context of its instrumentalization. The examination of English imperial discourses about Ireland and Venetian discourse has demonstrated instrumentalist nature of early modern ethnographic discourses of the Other. Imperial discourse of the Other justified sovereignty of the metropole over the periphery and also communicated knowledge about the Other in order to suggest possible solutions to the problems of governance.

Keywords: imperial discourse; early modern ethnography; Venice; Ireland; Pietro Coppo; Fynes Moryson; Sir John Davies; Barnabe Rich (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2020
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, December 2020, pages 39

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