Gifting and Reciprocation at Royal Circumcision Festivity in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire

Demand for Justice and Response of the Sultan: Decision Making in the Ottoman Empire in the Early 16th Century

Numerous typologies have been advanced by scholars seeking to capture the essential elements of the Ottoman political system and various efforts have been made to identify their relationship to decision making mechanism: in these efforts, either a definite theoretical model was chosen and findings of empirical studies were interpreted according to this modelor, topics suggested by Karl Marx or ...

Agricultural Productivity in the Early Ottoman Empire

This paper provides standardized estimates of labor productivity in arable farming in selected regions of the early Ottoman Empire, including Jerusalem and neighboring districts in eastern Mediterranean; Bursa and Malatya in Anatolia; and Thessaly, Herzegovina, and Budapest in eastern Europe. I use data from the tax registers of the Ottoman Empire to estimate grain output per worker, standardiz...

Hijra and forced migration from nineteenth-century Russia to the Ottoman Empire

Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500-1800

By the early 16th century, the Ottoman Empire had emerged as a major military power in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. The Ottomans were feared and admired by contemporaneous Europeans from Niccol6 Machiavelli to Ivan Peresvetov. The latter regarded the empire of Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1444-46, 1451-81) as a model to be emulated by his own ruler, Ivan IV of Muscovy (r. 1547-84), and inde...

Women's bodies, demography, and public health: abortion policy and perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century.