1. Αποθετήριο Παραδοτέων Υποτρόφων Δράσεων ΕΣΠΑ Τριτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης 2017-2023
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3. Μεταδιδακτορικοί ερευνητές

Τύπος:	Ανακοίνωση σε συνέδριο
Τίτλος:	Janissary networks in the Mediterranean (18th-early 19th centuries)
Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Σπυρόπουλος, Ιωάννης[EN] Spyropoulos, Ioannis
Ημερομηνία:	13/09/2018
Περίληψη:	The paper deals with the financial role of the janissaries in the 18th and early 19th centuries through their examination as a complex of interconnected networks in the heart of the Mediterranean. Its main thesis is that the study of janissary networks holds the key to understanding the role of Muslims in the Ottoman and wider Mediterranean economies, a role largely ignored by the historiography. By bringing the Muslim population into the picture of the Ottoman Empire’s commercial life we will be able to revisit the currently existing deeply unbalanced view of the 18th- and early-19th-century Ottoman trade, one in which seemingly only non-Muslims and their European co-religionists played an important role. The janissaries constitute one of the most intriguing, heatedly debated, and yet least understood institutions of the Ottoman Empire. To date, researchers have focused almost exclusively on their military performance and political stance towards the central Ottoman administration, while their involvement into the financial affairs of the Empire’s periphery has been largely ignored, treated either as a symptom of ‘decline’ from their ‘true’ purpose, that of conducting warfare, or as the product of individual soldiers’ private initiatives. This paper proposes a different analytical framework: The janissary corps has to be understood as a decentralized, yet coherent, multifunctional organization with built-in institutional characteristics that facilitated its entanglement in the Ottoman state’s financial life. In the 18th and early-19th centuries, this entanglement was destined to become one of the main channels for the participation of Muslims in the Ottoman provinces into the Empire’s increasingly monetized economy, and, subsequently, an important means for the popularization and transformation of the Ottoman state institutions in a time of radical change for the global financial and political scene. Ultimately, the janissaries should be seen for what they really were: one of the most important driving forces behind the Empire’s modernization. The paper focuses on major Ottoman port-cities of the Mediterranean with high concentration of janissaries and is primarily based on research conducted in Ottoman and French archives preserved in Turkey, Greece, and France.
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
Τόπος δημοσίευσης:	Sofia, Bulgaria
Σελίδες:	4
Θεματική κατηγορία:	[EL] Ιστορία[EN] History
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:	Γενίτσαροι; Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© by the author(s)
Διατίθεται ανοιχτά στην τοποθεσία:	https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Abstracts_CIEPO-23.pdf
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση του τεκμηρίου στον εκδότη:	https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/?page_id=248 https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Abstracts_CIEPO-23.pdf
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	23rd Symposium of the CIEPO Abstracts
Σελίδες τεκμηρίου (στην πηγή):	141-142
Όνομα εκδήλωσης:	23rd Symposium of CIEPO (COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DES ÉTUDES PRÉ-OTTOMANES ET OTTOMANES)
Τοποθεσία εκδήλωσης:	Sofia, Bulgaria
Ημ/νία έναρξης εκδήλωσης:	11/09/2018
Ημ/νία λήξης εκδήλωσης:	15/09/2018
Σημειώσεις:	Symposium Programme: https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Programme-and-List-of-Participants-CIEPO-23.pdf
Εμφανίζεται στις συλλογές:	Μεταδιδακτορικοί ερευνητές