The other faces of the Empire : ordinary lives against social order and hierarchy

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    • Yaşa, Fırat
    • Taşdelen, Esra

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The other faces of the Empire : ordinary lives against social order and hierarchy

editor, Fırat Yaşa ; [translator, Esra Taşdelen]

(Koç Üniversitesi yayınları, 275)

KUP, 2022, c2019

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İmparatorluğun öteki yüzlere : toplumsal hiyerarşi ve düzen karşısında sıradan hayatlar

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Originally published in Turkish by Koç University Press, 2020"--P. preceding t.p.

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Description

Essays illuminate the lives of ordinary people who lived in the Ottoman era.  Drawing from centuries-old court records, The Other Faces of Empire traces the lives of “outstage” people in vast empire lands. Each essay in the collection tells the story of an ordinary person navigating the Ottoman Empire. On this journey, we meet colorful and quite extraordinary figures: Deli Şaban, “naughty and haramzade” with his unsuccessful suicide attempts; Divane Hamza, who harassed the people in the village of Evciler in Bursa; Mâryem of Konya, who killed her husbands and buried them in the floor of a room of her house; Alaeddin from Skopje, who was captured by pirates; Nicolò Algarotti, a Venetian broker; and many others.  The volume’s micro-historical perspective strengthens its place in historiography, and moreover, it updates the historical record by sharing the overlooked stories of “ordinary” people and recording their names in the Ottoman historical literature one by one. 

Table of Contents

Foreword Firat Yasa Introduction Suraiya Faroqhi SECTION I ACCESSING PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR CRIMES Chapter 1 Sitting in a Stable yet Singing Songs of the Palace: On Horse Ownership as Self-Display Nurcan Abaci Chapter 2 An ill-behaved, illegitimate son, a Tattling, Restless Soul: The Suicide Attempts of Deli Saban with Nine Lives Zeynep Do¨rtok Abaci Chapter 3 From the Marshes to the Qadi’s Court: The Trials and Tribulations of a Village with Divane Hamza Firat Yas¸a Chapter 4: The Guiles of Men Outsmart Ma^ryem: Prostitution, Murder and Social Control in 18th Century Konya Cemal C¸etin Chapter 5 Partnership in Mischief in the 16th century: An Entire Family of Thieves Saadet Maydaer Chapter 6 The Case of Gülpasa of the Gurbet Crew at Bor in the 16th Century Emine Dingec¸ Chapter 7 Have Some Mercy, Sir!: The Suffering of Selim the Slave Zu¨beyde Gu¨nes¸ Yag?ci SECTION II The Operations of Ottoman Bureaucracy: Helpful or not? Chapter 8 Alaeddin from Üsküp: From Captivity to Mülazemet Yasemin Beyazit Chapter 9 Voting and Election Practices of the Greek Community in the Ottoman Classical Period: The Demogerontia Elections Filiz Yas¸ar Chapter 10 Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward: A Grand Melee in the Ottoman Provinces O¨zlem Bas¸arir Chapter 11 Are we not Ottomans? The Struggle of Shi’i Nureddin and Ibrahim in Returning from Exile Faruk Yaslic¸imen Chapter 12 Why did Su¨reyya, Vasfi, Mehmed and Idris become Runaways? Thoughts on the Ottoman Education System by way of a Case of Truancy Ismail Yas¸ayanlar SECTION III Out of Category: The Adventures of a Dubious Broker Chapter 13 Nicolo` Algarotti: A Life Shaped at the Borders of Conversion Buket Kalayci Contributors Index

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