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 and in the following centuries.

List 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.

About the author

Nükhet Varlik is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship by the American Research Institute in Turkey, a Senior Fellowship from Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, and a Turkish Cultural Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Summary

Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, this book is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Neukhet Varlik, Nukhet Varlik, Nükhet Varlik
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107013384
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01338-4
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; European History, Ottoman Empire, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, History of Medicine, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval