Europeanist Trends and Islamicate Trajectories in Early Modern Ottoman History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4992504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Markiewicz (0000-0001-5043-2694, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 239 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 265-281 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gty009 |
| OpenAlex | W2800082837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
There is little question these days that the Ottoman Empire constitutes a significant aspect of the early modern landscape. It is now rare to come across any academic publication or conference presentation on the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries without also encountering ‘early modern’ prominently included in the title or text. More substantively, Ottomanists have made great strides in the last generation to connect the history of the empire in meaningful ways to the major concepts, themes and developments that have animated the study of contemporaneous, neighbouring geographies. In the last two decades, such geographies have most frequently consisted of Europe and the Mediterranean, however construed. By any number of criteria, Ottoman studies of the early modern era have been connected frequently and accepted generally as an integral component of a wider early modern world, especially in its European and Mediterranean iterations. The approach has shifted the field away from the self-referential and arcane concerns that had once dominated its study, yet this integration of Ottoman history with the broader historiographical currents of Europeanists also has come at a cost. In some cases, the overlaying of Europeanist themes and concepts upon sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman realities obscures as much as it illuminates and raises the question of whether a European or Mediterranean frame of reference is the most appropriate for examining the more localized political, social, religious, economic and intellectual contexts that shaped life in the Ottoman Empire between 1500 and 1800. Put differently, is there another way?
Ancient history · Archaeology · Early Modern Europe · Early modern period · Empire · Historiography · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics) · Roman Empire · Classics · History · Law · Ottoman Empire History and Society
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |