Quarters, Communities and Converts; Creating Networks in an Age of Bureaucratic Expansion in the Mediterranean (Rodosçuk, 1546-1553)

Autor: Özlem Sert
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Zdroj: Oriente Moderno. 93:365-389
ISSN: 2213-8617
DOI: 10.1163/22138617-12340022
Popis: Abstract Zooming into the active relations of people in the harbour neighbourhoods show vivid life in Ottoman port towns. Converts, bridging the Muslim and Non-Muslim communities; immigrants: bridding the urban and rural relations mostly inhabited around the harbour in Çavuş Hüseyin Quarter of Rodosçuk between 1546-1553. The hierarchies of Ottoman Society constructed by legal status, political power, economic power, gender, seniority were crossed through networks of individual relations of the inhabitants. An analysis of these relations, a zoom to the lives of people who reproduced hierarchies and networks makes one recognize the details changing lives.
Databáze: OpenAIRE