The myth of the Byzantine origins of the Osmanlis

An essay in interpretation

Bibliographic Data

ID11932435
AuthorsΚωνσταντίνος Μουστάκας (0000-0002-1721-7121, University of Crete, corresponding author), Konstantinos Moustakas (0000-0003-1301-2484)
Year2015
Volume39
Issue1
Pages85-97
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueByzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1179/0307013114z.00000000054
OpenAlexW2010241363
LanguageEN
References cited12

The story that gave the Osmanlis a distant Comnenian origin emerges in sixteenth-century Italian and Greek histories, inspired by the twelfth-century accounts of the renegade prince John Komnenos, as related by Niketas Choniates Its invention and propagation might have served the legitimacy of Ottoman rule, in which case, it was addressed to gulams and converts rather than to the Christian subjects of the sultans. It can also be interpreted as fitting the ideals and the imaginations of highly positioned converts in the Ottoman service, who previously belonged to the Byzantine and Balkan aristocracies

Ancient history · Art · Byzantine architecture · Interpretation (philosophy · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Philosophy

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