Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

✍ Scribed by Heath W. Lowry; Nejat Göyünç

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A volume consisting of essays by Heath Lowry based on his work studying Ottoman registers and other archival documents from Anatolia and the Balkans.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
GENERAL STUDIES
I. THE OTTOMAN TAHRỉR DEFTERLERỉ AS A SOURCE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORYPITFALLS AND LIMITATIONS
II. THE OTTOMAN LtVA KANUNNAMES CONTAINED IN THE DEFTER-ỉ HAKANỉ
URBAN HISTORY
III. “FROM LESSER WARS TO THE MIGHTIEST WAR”: THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST AND TRANSFORMATION OF BYZANTINE URBAN CENTERS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
IV. PORTRAIT OF A CITY: THE POPULATION AND TOPOGRAPHY OF OTTOMAN SELANIK (THESSALONIKI) IN THE YEAR 1478
V. TRABZON’S YENỉ CUMA CAMỉỉ (NEW FRIDAY MOSQUE): WHY IS IT CALLED WHAT IT IS?
VI. THE QUESTION OF TRABZON’S EFRENCIYAN POPULATION: 1486-1583
VII. THE ROLE OF BYZANTINE PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS FOLLOWING THE OTTOMAN CONQUESTS OF THEIR LANDS
VIII. PRIVILEGE AND PROPERTY IN OTTOMAN MAÇUKA IN THE OPENING DECADES OF THE TOURKOKRATIA: 1461-1553
IX. CHANGES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN PEASANT TAXATION: THE CASE STUDY OF RADILOFO
X. THE ISLAND OF LIMNOS: A CASE STUDY ON THE CONTINUITY OF BYZANTINE FORMS UNDER OTTOMAN RULE
XL A CORPUS OF EXTANT KANUNNAMES FOR THE ISLAND OF LIMNOS AS CONTAINED IN THE TAPU-TAHRỉR DEFTER COLLECTION OF THE BAŞBAKANLIK ARCHIVES
MONASTIC HISTORY
XII A NOTE ON THE POPULATION AND STATUS OF THE ATHONITE MONASTERIES UNDER OTTOMAN RULE (ca. 1520)
XIII. THE FATE OF BYZANTINE MONASTIC PROPERTIES UNDER THE OTTOMANS: EXAMPLES FROM MOUNT ATHOS, LIMNOS AND TRABZON
Appendix I. Facsimile of TT #25: p. 32
Appendix II. Facsimile of TT #75: p. 154
Appendix III. Facsimile of TT #434
Appendix IV. Facsimile of TT #307: p. 84
Appendix V. Facsimile of TT #490: p. 168
Appendix VI. Facsimile of TT #724: p. 117