Defterology revisited
Subtitle: studies on 15th and 16th century Ottoman society
By: Heath W. Lowry
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Analecta Isisiana -- 101
Publisher: Isis Press; The Isis Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789754283570
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Cities and towns; History; Officials and employees; Orthodox Eastern monasteries
Notes: Collection of Lowry's articles reprinted from various serials and monographic publications.

Includes bibliographical references.

English, Ottoman and Turkish.
Table of contents: title: Impropriety and impiety among the early Ottoman sultans (1351-1451); title: Pushing the stone uphill: the impact of bubonic plague on Ottoman urban society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; title: Random musings on the origins of Ottoman charity : from Mekece to Bursa, İznik and beyond; title: Some thoughts on the meaning of Gaza and Akın in early Ottoman usage; title: The role of the Bursa Palace in preparing bread for the Ottoman sultans; title: A note on three Palaiologon princes as members of the Ottoman ruling elite; title: From Trabzon to Istanbul : the relationship between Süleyman the Lawgiver and his foster brother (süt karındaşi) Yahya Efendi; title: Ottoman İznik (Nicaea) : through the eyes of travelers & as recorded in administrative documents, 1331-1923; title: When did the Sephardim arrive in Salonica? : the testimony of the Ottoman tax-registers, 1478-1613; title: The fifteenth century Ottoman 'Province of the monks' (Vilayet-i Keşişlik).