
Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman History Podcast
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The Natural Order of the State in the Early Modern Period
The natural order of the state was an early modern mania, which i really am. The ottomans are a part of a kind of a trans imperial space in which this question of rendering legible, often diffuse and unwieldy territories from the perspective of a centralized palace base is a crisis in governance. And it's also thinking about the emergence of a sort of am frenchly amicably dynamic as well as portuguese and venetians having different configurations to rule their domains. It's a composite domain that brings all these kinds of spaces together by that obsessive documentary production on palatial establishments. I mean we're talking about very different regimes like land and teneral regimes
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