Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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 (134753); Part II. Plague of Empire: 4. The first phase (145317): plague comes from the West; 5. The second phase (1517): multiple plague trajectories; 6. The third phase (157000): 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.

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