Empress of the East
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- 14 ore di lettura
The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.
Leslie Peirce Libri
Leslie P. Peirce è una storica il cui lavoro approfondisce la storia moderna iniziale dell'Impero Ottomano, con un focus particolare su genere, diritto e società. La sua erudizione è caratterizzata da una profonda immersione nelle strutture sociali e nei sistemi legali dell'epoca. Peirce esplora le complessità della vita quotidiana e le dinamiche di potere attraverso un'analisi meticolosa delle fonti storiche. Il suo approccio offre una prospettiva unica sulla formazione della società e sulla posizione delle donne nel mondo ottomano dell'era moderna iniziale.
Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal texts. Unfree persons comprised two general populations: slaves and captives. Mostly household workers, slaves lived in a variety of circumstances, from squalor to luxury. Their duties varied with the status of their owner. Slave status might not last a lifetime, as Islamic law and Ottoman practice endorsed freeing one's slave. Captives were typically seized in raids, generally to disappear, their fates unknown. Victims rarely returned home, despite efforts of their families and neighbors to recover them. The reader learns what it was about the Ottoman environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that offered some captives the opportunity to improve the conditions of their bondage. The book describes imperial efforts to fight against the menace of captive-taking despite the widespread corruption among the state's own officials, who had their own interest in captive labor. From the fortunes of captives and slaves the book moves to their representation in legend, historical literature, and law, where, fortunately, both captors and their prey are present.
Do niedawna Roksolana była uważana przez badaczy za uwodzicielkę, która doprowadziła imperium osmańskie do ruiny. Tymczasem Leslie Peirce, uznana historyczka, w swojej książce z rozmachem maluje pociągającą historię tajemniczej kobiety, która przekształciła sułtański harem w instytucję o ogromnym... číst celé