Byzantium to Turkey

by Fleet, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780521620932
• ISBN10: 0521620937
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-20
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Taking the period as a whole, the volume covers the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of the region as the Byzantine empire crumbled and Anatolia passed into Turkish control to become the heartland of the Ottoman empire. In this way, the authors emphasise the continuities of the era rather than its dislocations, situating Anatolia within its geographic context at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The world which emerges is one of military encounter, but also of cultural cohabitation, intellectual and diplomatic exchange, and political finesse. This is a state-of-the-art work of reference on an understudied period in Turkish history by some of the leading scholars in the field.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
List of contributors	p. xi
A note on transliteration	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The Byzantine Empire from the eleventh to the fifteenth century	p. 6
Anatolia under the Mongols	p. 51
Anatolia, 1300-1451	p. 102
The incorporation of the Balkans into the Ottoman Empire, 1353-1453	p. 138
Ottoman warfare, 1300-1453	p. 192
The Turkish economy, 1071-1453	p. 227
Art and Architecture, 1300-1453	p. 266
Social, cultural and intellectual life, 1071-1453	p. 353
Glossary	p. 423
Bibliography	p. 429
Index	p. 482
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