Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies)

A volume consisting of essays by Heath Lowry based on his work studying Ottoman registers and other archival documents from Anatolia and the Balkans. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GENERAL STUDIES I. THE OTTOMAN TAHRỉR DEFTERLERỉ AS A SOURCE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORYPITFALLS AND LIMITATIONS II. THE OTTOMAN LtVA KANUNNAMES CONTAINED IN THE DEFTER-ỉ HAKANỉ URBAN HISTORY III. “FROM LESSER WARS TO THE MIGHTIEST WAR”: THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST AND TRANSFORMATION OF BYZANTINE URBAN CENTERS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IV. PORTRAIT OF A CITY: THE POPULATION AND TOPOGRAPHY OF OTTOMAN SELANIK (THESSALONIKI) IN THE YEAR 1478 V. TRABZON’S YENỉ CUMA CAMỉỉ (NEW FRIDAY MOSQUE): WHY IS IT CALLED WHAT IT IS? VI. THE QUESTION OF TRABZON’S EFRENCIYAN POPULATION: 1486-1583 VII. THE ROLE OF BYZANTINE PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS FOLLOWING THE OTTOMAN CONQUESTS OF THEIR LANDS VIII. PRIVILEGE AND PROPERTY IN OTTOMAN MAÇUKA IN THE OPENING DECADES OF THE TOURKOKRATIA: 1461-1553 IX. CHANGES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN PEASANT TAXATION: THE CASE STUDY OF RADILOFO X. THE ISLAND OF LIMNOS: A CASE STUDY ON THE CONTINUITY OF BYZANTINE FORMS UNDER OTTOMAN RULE XL A CORPUS OF EXTANT KANUNNAMES FOR THE ISLAND OF LIMNOS AS CONTAINED IN THE TAPU-TAHRỉR DEFTER COLLECTION OF THE BAŞBAKANLIK ARCHIVES MONASTIC HISTORY XII A NOTE ON THE POPULATION AND STATUS OF THE ATHONITE MONASTERIES UNDER OTTOMAN RULE (ca. 1520) XIII. THE FATE OF BYZANTINE MONASTIC PROPERTIES UNDER THE OTTOMANS: EXAMPLES FROM MOUNT ATHOS, LIMNOS AND TRABZON Appendix I. Facsimile of TT #25: p. 32 Appendix II. Facsimile of TT #75: p. 154 Appendix III. Facsimile of TT #434 Appendix IV. Facsimile of TT #307: p. 84 Appendix V. Facsimile of TT #490: p. 168 Appendix VI. Facsimile of TT #724: p. 117