Author: John Jefferson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004219048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad presents a detailed account of the conflict between Christendom and the Ottoman Empire from 1438-1444, which culminated in the Crusade of Varna.
The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad
Author: John Jefferson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004219048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad presents a detailed account of the conflict between Christendom and the Ottoman Empire from 1438-1444, which culminated in the Crusade of Varna.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004219048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad presents a detailed account of the conflict between Christendom and the Ottoman Empire from 1438-1444, which culminated in the Crusade of Varna.
The Sultans
Author: Jem Duducu
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445668610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A history of 600 years - an epic story of a dynasty that started as a small group of cavalry mercenaries to become the absolute rulers of the greatest and longest lasting Islamic empire in history.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445668610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A history of 600 years - an epic story of a dynasty that started as a small group of cavalry mercenaries to become the absolute rulers of the greatest and longest lasting Islamic empire in history.
The Imperial Harem
Author: Leslie P. Peirce
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195086775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195086775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.
The Ottoman Sultans
Author: Salih Gülen
Publisher: Blue Dome Press
ISBN: 9781935295044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Sultans of the Ottoman Dynasty ruled over a vast transcontinental empire for more than six centuries. Of the thirty-six Ottoman Sultans emerged extraordinary commanders, brilliant statesmen, highly talented sportsmen, masterful musicians, distinguished calligraphers, notable poets, and renowned composers. This book illustrates these men.
Publisher: Blue Dome Press
ISBN: 9781935295044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Sultans of the Ottoman Dynasty ruled over a vast transcontinental empire for more than six centuries. Of the thirty-six Ottoman Sultans emerged extraordinary commanders, brilliant statesmen, highly talented sportsmen, masterful musicians, distinguished calligraphers, notable poets, and renowned composers. This book illustrates these men.
Universal Empire
Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45
Author: Professor Colin Imber
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472416945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to 'liberate' Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad's victory at Varna that secured Ottoman domination of the Balkan Peninsula, with consequences which are still apparent today. Three important works, hitherto largely unnoticed in western historiography, provide eyewitness accounts of the dramatic events of 1443-45 from the Christian and the Muslim side: an anonymous Ottoman text on The Holy Wars of Sultan Murad; a section of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by the Bugundian, Jehan de Wavrin, and a German ballad on the Crusade by Michel Beheim. These are presented here for the first time in English translation, supplemented by a series of shorter contemporary texts relating to the events of the crusade, with an introduction and annotation.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472416945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to 'liberate' Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad's victory at Varna that secured Ottoman domination of the Balkan Peninsula, with consequences which are still apparent today. Three important works, hitherto largely unnoticed in western historiography, provide eyewitness accounts of the dramatic events of 1443-45 from the Christian and the Muslim side: an anonymous Ottoman text on The Holy Wars of Sultan Murad; a section of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by the Bugundian, Jehan de Wavrin, and a German ballad on the Crusade by Michel Beheim. These are presented here for the first time in English translation, supplemented by a series of shorter contemporary texts relating to the events of the crusade, with an introduction and annotation.
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Author: Jane Hathaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107108292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107108292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
An Ottoman Cosmography
Author: Kātib Çelebi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004441336
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Cihānnümā is a summa of the Islamic geographical tradition and the first Muslim adaptation of the early modern atlas as the scientific representation of the world. Our translation of Müteferriḳa’s printed edition takes full account of Kātib Çelebi’s original manuscript.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004441336
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Cihānnümā is a summa of the Islamic geographical tradition and the first Muslim adaptation of the early modern atlas as the scientific representation of the world. Our translation of Müteferriḳa’s printed edition takes full account of Kātib Çelebi’s original manuscript.
The Ottoman World
Author: Christine Woodhead
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113649894X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Istanbul? Ottoman authority might have been established largely by military conquest, but how was it maintained for so long, over such distances and so many disparate societies? How did provincial regions relate to the imperial centre and what role was played in this by local elites? What did it mean in practice, for ordinary people, to be part of an ‘Ottoman world’? Arranged in five thematic sections, with contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses these questions, examining aspects of the social and socio-ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire, and offers a combination of broad synthesis and detailed investigation that is both informative and intended to raise points for future debate. The Ottoman World provides a unique coverage of the Ottoman empire, widening its scope beyond Istanbul to the edges of the empire, and offers key coverage for students and scholars alike.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113649894X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world’ beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Istanbul? Ottoman authority might have been established largely by military conquest, but how was it maintained for so long, over such distances and so many disparate societies? How did provincial regions relate to the imperial centre and what role was played in this by local elites? What did it mean in practice, for ordinary people, to be part of an ‘Ottoman world’? Arranged in five thematic sections, with contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses these questions, examining aspects of the social and socio-ideological composition of this major pre-modern empire, and offers a combination of broad synthesis and detailed investigation that is both informative and intended to raise points for future debate. The Ottoman World provides a unique coverage of the Ottoman empire, widening its scope beyond Istanbul to the edges of the empire, and offers key coverage for students and scholars alike.
Leisure, Pleasure - and Duty
Author: Hedda Reindl-Kiel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783868932157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783868932157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description