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Timur the (Terrible/Tartar) Trope: a Case of Repositioning in Popular Literature and History'

Timur the (Terrible/Tartar) Trope: a Case of Repositioning in Popular Literature and History' <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study details how the medieval Central Asian leader, Timur, looked upon by many in the Latin West as a potential savior, came to be vilified as British imperial interests moved from the Ottoman Porte to India and Central Asia. To the vast majority of those to whom his name means anything at all, it commemorates a militarist who perpetuated as many horrors in the span of twenty-four years as the last five Assyrian kings perpetrated in a hundred and twenty ... The crack-brained megalomania of [a] homicidal madman whose one idea is to impress the imagination of mankind with a sense of his military power by a hideous abuse of it ...2</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medieval Encounters Brill

Timur the (Terrible/Tartar) Trope: a Case of Repositioning in Popular Literature and History'

Medieval Encounters , Volume 7 (1): 101 – Jan 1, 2001

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Brill
Copyright
© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1380-7854
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1570-0674
DOI
10.1163/157006701X00102
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study details how the medieval Central Asian leader, Timur, looked upon by many in the Latin West as a potential savior, came to be vilified as British imperial interests moved from the Ottoman Porte to India and Central Asia. To the vast majority of those to whom his name means anything at all, it commemorates a militarist who perpetuated as many horrors in the span of twenty-four years as the last five Assyrian kings perpetrated in a hundred and twenty ... The crack-brained megalomania of [a] homicidal madman whose one idea is to impress the imagination of mankind with a sense of his military power by a hideous abuse of it ...2</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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Medieval EncountersBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2001

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