Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world : the Ottoman experience, 1347-1600 /

"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 scient...

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Main Author: Varlik, Nükhet (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Plague > Turkey > Epidemiology > History.
Black Death > Turkey > History.
Plague > Environmental aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > Social aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > Political aspects > Turkey > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Turkey > History.
Plague > history.
Plague > epidemiology.
Epidemics > history.
Politics.
Sociological Factors.
Environment.
History, Medieval.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey > Environmental conditions > History.
Ottoman Empire.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Plague : history and historiography. A natural history of plague
  • Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography
  • The Black Death and its aftermath (1347-1453)
  • Part II. Plague of empire. The first phase (1453-1517) : plague comes from the West
  • The second phase (1517-1570) : multiple plague trajectories
  • The third phase (1570-1600) : Istanbul as plague hub
  • Part III. Empire of plague. Plague transformed : changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes
  • The state of the plague : politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state
  • Epilogue.

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