Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

This volume characterizes the changing attitudes in the Ottoman Empire (on the part of adults, religious institutions and the state) toward children from the 15th to the early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries in a broad geographic area including Ottoman Romania, Bulgaria, Crimea, Greece, Bosnia, Syria, Palestine and Istanbul. It sheds light on Ottoman childhood in five main sections: concepts of childhood, family interrelationships, children living outside family circles (slaves, child labourers and or