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Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World - The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (Paperback)
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Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World - The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (Paperback)
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This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman
experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the
centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative
sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers'
accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nukhet Varlik
demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social,
and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late
medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the
empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague
by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by
intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and
non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited
new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new
body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new
consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the
plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
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