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is a series of Latin chronicles from the Santa Sophia monastery in benevento, southern Italy. The entries in the annals were originally annual. There are three manuscripts of the Annales Beneventani, each of which comes from the convent of Santa Sophia; all three editions of the annals differ. The first manuscript came down to us as part of the Vatican Codex, which also contained a Psalter, a sacramentary, an antiphonary, and published documents. The second was found in 1724 in benevento. The third was also created in the church of Santa Sophia. In this translation, we tried to reconcile three manuscripts.

This paper is focused on the issues of cultural hierarchies in early modern European imperial discourses in all-European discourse about Muscovy and Ottoman Empire and English discourse about Ireland, which have not been previously compared, in the narratives by Petrus Petreus, Paul Rycaut, Fynes Moryson and John Davies. The authors of the article have analyzed mechanisms of building the cultural hierarchies and compares different traditions of ethnographical descriptions with each other. The authors under consideration not only create cultural hierarchies, but also instrumentalize the image of the Other to some extent. They focus on government, laws, religion and manners. The choice of these aspects aims to highlight problems important not for (or not only for) the Other, but for authors` societies themselves. The fact that most accounts describe relative barbarians rather than absolute also can be a consequence of such instrumentalization, because comparison between "us" and the Other becomes important.

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