Publications

Halcyon Days in Crete I

Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.), The Ottoman Emirate (1300-1389), Halcyon Days in Crete I, A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 11-13 January 1991, Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 1993.

The transformation of a small emirate into the powerful Ottoman empire, which succeeded that of Byzantium and constitutes an impact on the western Christian world for several centuries, remains a phenomenon with a variety of aspects. The theories of the great historians M. F. Koprulu and P. Wittek, both put forward in the 1930s, have recently been challenged. On the other hand, recent findings and subsequent studies have provoked further discussions with new arguments, and provided additional explanations. The role of dervishes has been stressed. Coins have been found which shed new light on the humble findings of the fourteenth-century Turkish emirs. New texts have been discovered while tahrir-defters have clarified early institutions. The Institute for Mediterranean Studies organized a Symposium focusing on a re-examination of the history of the Ottoman emirate and this volume contains seventeen papers presented at it.

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Halcyon Days in Crete II

Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.), The Via Egnatia under Ottoman Rule (1380-1699), Halcyon Days in Crete II, A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 9-11 January 1994, Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 1996.

The Via Egnatia crossing the Balkans and stretching from the Adriatic to the Sea of Marmara constituted an axis of strategical and commercial importance for many centuries; it was also connected with cultural exchanges and population movements. The Institute for Mediterranean Studies organised a Symposium focusing on these problems and this volume contains seventeen papers presented at it.

 

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Halcyon Days in Crete III

Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.), Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire, Halcyon Days in Crete III, A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 10-12 January 1997, Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 1999.

A natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a flood, sometimes followed by a second disaster, such as fire or an epidemic, constitutes an unforeseen event which has an impact on a society´s economy or edmography and often on the relations of the individual with the state or the religious authorities. Nevertheless, the role of natural disasters in historical developments is ambiguous. The nineteenth studies included in this volume deal with methodology for the study of natural disasters and with problems mentioned above.

 

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Halcyon Days in Crete IV

Elizabeth Zachariadou (ed.), The Kapudan Pasha, His Office and his Domain, Halcyon Days in Crete IV, A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 7-9 January 2000, Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 2002.

The Ottoman Empire possessed an administrative maritime network extending from the Indian Ocean up to the North African frontier of the Mediterranean Sea and from the Red Sea up to the great river that connected the Turkish territories with Central Europe, the Danube. Twenty-five contributors included in this volume study the leading figure of the Ottoman naval administration, the Kapudan Pasha.

 

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Halcyon Days in Crete V

Antonis Anastasopoulos (ed.), Provincial Elites in the Ottoman Empire, Halcyon Days in Crete V, A Symposium Held in Rethymno, 10-12 January 2003, Rethymno: Crete University Press, 2005.

Provincial elites were an important factor in the life of the Ottoman Empire in many respects: as local leadership, as political figures mediating between the central state and its provinces, as tax-farmers and entrepreneurs, as role models for their peers. There is a wide variety of people who may be regarder as belonging to the Ottoman provincial elites, because of both the extensive territory occupied by the Empire and its longevity. Eighteen contributions published in this volume discuss several aspects of Ottoman provincial elites, both Muslim and non-Muslim. Among the topics covered are the composition and characteristics of the elite, elite culture, patronage, and wealth and power bases, relations of elite figures with the state authorities and other members of the elite, and elite mobility over an extensive period of time ranging from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century.

 

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