Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I The Ottoman Empires
5. Prelates Weeping on Demand, Prelates Nationalists, Prelates Janissaries: Instrumentalist Discourses and Power Entanglements of the Christian Orthodox Clerical Elites in the Late Ottoman Empire 13
6. Hellenizing the Empire Through Historiography: Pavlos Karolidis and Greek Historical Writing in the Late Ottoman Empire 29
7. International Crisis and Empire: Muslim and Jewish Solidarity with the Ottoman Imperial Ideal in the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897 57
8. Part II The Balkan Empires
9. Dreaming of an Empire: Discourse Analysis of Serbian Poetry at the Beginning of the 20th Century 79
10. An Attractive Enemy: The Conquest of Constantinople in Bulgarian Imagery 101
11. “Turkish Illyrians” or Bulgarians/Serbs? Ottoman South Slavs Within the Croatian and Bulgarian National Models (1830s–1840s) 115
12. Part III Eastern Slavic Empires
13. Russia in Serbian and Bulgarian National Mythologies Until the First World War 141
14. Russian View on Balkan Nationalism (1878–1914) 173
15. Imagining the Third Rome and the New Jerusalem in the 16th–18th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 199
16. Part IV Ottoman Utopias and Dystopias
17. Balkan Nationalisms Against the Oriental Empire: Balkan National Poetry and the Disavowal of a Literary System 225
18. Differing Perceptions of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Ethnic Narrative of the Revival 257
19. Against the Imperial Past: The Perception of the Turk and the Greek “Enemy” in the Albanian National Identity-Building Process 277
20. List of Contributors 301
21. Index 307