Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600

ISBN-13: 9781108412773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 354 str.

Nukhet Varlik

Opis

This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Recenzje

'The significant contribution of Nükhet Varlık's monograph is that it places the Ottoman empire in the context of world plague history rather than treating it as an isolated, Islamic site of plague phenomena. … I expect this excellent, ambitious and original scholarly work to have a significant impact on the fields of Ottoman history and plague studies. It fits into a new wave of innovative Ottomanist scholarship that takes questions of disease and environment and makes them central to the study of empire.' Palmira Brummett, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

Part I. Plague: History and Historiography: 1. A natural history of plague; 2. Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography; 3. The Black Death and its aftermath (1347–1453); Part II. Plague of Empire: 4. The first phase (1453–1517): plague comes from the West; 5. The second phase (1517–70): multiple plague trajectories; 6. The third phase (1570–1600): Istanbul as plague hub; Part III. Empire of Plague: 7. Plague transformed: changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes; 8. The state of the plague: politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state; Epilogue.