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the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600

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Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world

the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600

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"This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state"--

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Cover of: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
2017, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347 1600
2015, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600
2015, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600
2015, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2015

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Dewey Decimal Class
614.5/73209561
Library of Congress
RC179.T9 V37 2015, RC179.T9 V37 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 336 pages
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26888726M
Internet Archive
plagueempireinea0000varl
ISBN 10
1107013380
ISBN 13
9781107013384
LCCN
2015006206
OCLC/WorldCat
904801161

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