Lire Et Ecrire l'Histoire Ottomane: 81 (Beiruter Texte Und Studien) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3956501470 ISBN 13: 9783956501470

Publisher: Ergon Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Since the 1980s, written documents generated by the Ottoman law courts constitute the single most frequently used primary source by historians of Ottoman Bilad al-sam. The result is a large number of studies using many of these documents, usually from several different registers. Rarely, however, do the historians invite readers to share in a critical and focused discussion of a select few of these documentary sources. The contributors to this volume reveal the difficulties and questions they face in reading and interpreting handwritten documents, often carelessly recorded in a formulaic and elliptical language. The diverse studies collected here present a wide range of documents issued in legal practice, disclose the process of deciphering manuscripts, and set forth the differing readings and informal usages of this kind of source.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ergon Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 3956501470
• ISBN 13: 9783956501470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Gueno Vanessa, Knost Stefan