Render Unto the Sultan - Power, Authority, Greek Orthodox Church in Early Ottoman Centuries

Examines the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the church's power in relation to the economic, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman state.

List of contents

• Part I: Theoretical and Historical Background


• Introduction


• 1: The Millet System Revisited


• 2: ?stimâlet, Ottoman Methods of Conquest, and the Greek Orthodox Church


• Part II: The Patriarchal Tax Farm


• 3: The All-Holy Tax Farmer: The Istanbul Rum Patrigi as Mültezim


• 4: Ottoman Tax Farming and the Greek Orthodox Church


• Part III: Contested Power and Authority


• 5: Competition and Cooperation: Sultan, Patriarch, and Greek Elite


• 6: Looking Beyond the Sixteenth Century


• Glossary


• Bibliography

About the author

Tom Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgeian Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History, and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. A graduate of both Hellenic College (BA, 1988) and Holy Cross School of Theology (M. Divinity, 1992), Papademetriou received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies in Ottoman History. He was awarded research fellowships by the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Institute in Turkey to conduct research in the Ottoman Archives and the Archives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey. His research focuses on the history of non-Muslims under Ottoman rule, especially the relations of the Greek Orthodox Church and State in the early Ottoman centuries.

Summary

Examines the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the church's power in relation to the economic, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman state.

Additional text

valuable contribution to the church history of the Ottoman Empire that sheds new light on an often neglected era.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Papademetriou, Tom (Associate Professor of Histori Papademetriou, Tom (Associate Professor of Historical Studies Papademetriou, Papademetriou Tom
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9780198717898
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871789-8
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Education and learning > Vocational and technical college books; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Ottoman Empire, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Middle Eastern history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orthodox & Oriental Churches