Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LESLIE PEIRCE
• Gabriel Piterberg
• Teofilo F. Ruiz
• Geoffrey Symcox

Titel

Polyglottism in the Ottoman Empire: A Reconsideration

Ist Teil von

• Braudel Revisited, 2010, p.76

Ort / Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The multi-religious and multi-ethnic composition of the Ottoman empire is typically treated as one of its ‘natural’ features, an inevitable consequence of the human landscape that came with frontier origins and of the nature of Islamic rule. This volume, revisiting Mediterranean studies a half-century after the publication of Fernand Braudel’s inspiring work, invites reconsideration of phenomena that historians have come to take for granted. This essay reconsiders two such ‘givens’ for the Ottoman empire in the sixteenth century: first, rule by an elite composed primarily of captive Christians of various ethnicities who were converted to Islam and trained to serve