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Possession, dispossession, and exorcism in early modern England: Casting out divells in the light of John Darrell’s cases
(Bilkent University, 2018-06)This study analyzes the phenomenon of demonic possession and the rite of exorcism in early modern England and traces the debates over the reality of demonic activity such as possession in both Catholic and Protestant ... -
Physical environment and settlement patterns in Deliorman region (N.E. Bulgaria) in the sixteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)The spreading process of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan region covers a very long period. After the successive conquest period, the ultimate goal of the institutionalization was to maintain the permanence in the region. ... -
Mehmed Fuad Köprülü and the rise of modern historiography in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)This dissertation focuses on the intellectual and historical work of a historian who played a crucial role in the emergence and institutionalization of history as an academic discipline in Turkey: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü ... -
Fragile alliances in the Ottoman East: the Heyderan Tribe and the empire, 1820 - 1929
(Bilkent University, 2018-04)This dissertation discusses how tribal agency impacted the eastern margins of the empire in terms of tribe-empire relations during the nineteenth century. The Heyderan, a confederative form of tribal social organization, ... -
“I curse no one without cause”: Identity, power, rivalry, and invective In the early 17th-century Ottoman court
(Bilkent University, 2018-02)In the early 17th-century Ottoman Empire, a series of sociocultural, administrative, political, and economic changes were underway that left their mark on how the learned and cultural elite viewed the empire and themselves. ... -
An Ottoman administrative response to the Macedonian question: The General Inspectorate of Rumelia (1902-1909)
(Bilkent University, 2018-02)This study focuses on the General Inspectorate of Rumelia which was established on 29 November 1902 by Sultan Abdülhamid II. In the aftermath of the 1878 Berlin Treaty, there was a constant diplomatic pressure on the ... -
The Crescent, the Lion and the Eagle: re-analyzing the Ottoman Apulian Campaign and Attack on Corfu (1537) in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry
(Bilkent University, 2018-02)This dissertation produces a detailed historical narrative of the Ottoman Apulian Campaign and the Attack on Corfu in 1537. Although the Apulian Campaign, a natural consequence of the Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, which ... -
American foreign missions to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire: fashioning the model of educated christian womanhood in the East in the second half of the nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was one of the first establishments to introduce a Western-style educational system to the peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This thesis is an examination of ... -
Koinonikon zoon: the place of friendship in classical and early monastic community building
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)This study analyzes the significance of the concept of friendship in the works of three Classical Greek philosophers—Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—and various Desert Fathers—mainly, but not only, Pachomius and his ... -
Malcolm X’s attempt to internationalize the civil rights movement during the period between March 1964 and February 1965
(Bilkent University, 2017-12)In March 1964, Malcolm X split off from the Nation of Islam and continued his struggle as one of the foremost civil rights leaders until his assassination in February 1965. This thesis will examine Malcolm X and his ... -
Some aspects of the organizational and socio-economic role of the janissaries
(Bilkent University, 2017-10)This study questions one of the main wheels of the Ottoman central authority, the kapıkulu institution, and its organizational features in terms of their human factors under the three main categories through three distinct ... -
Punishment for violent crimes: aggression and violence in the early Germanic law codes
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)Germanic law codes, which are also known as leges barbarorum, date to between the 5th and 11th centuries. The leges were highly influenced by external legislative regulations and can be basically defined as a combination ... -
Cradle of triumph: the invasion of Sicily and the Anglo-American Alliance in the Second World War
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)This study analyzes the vital importance of the Invasion of Sicily (July 9/10-August 17, 1943), codenamed Operation Husky for the Anglo-American Alliance in the Second World War. As the largest amphibious operation in ... -
New inclinations towards land usufruct in the 18th century Anatolia
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)This thesis attempts to investigate the changing features of 18th century Ottoman agricultural production in the context of commercialization. New emerging landowners, long-termed usufruct of arable lands and the sharecropping ... -
Russian foreign policy in the Ottoman Balkans (1856-1875) : N. P. Ignatiev and the Slavic Benevolent Committee
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)Russia’s failure in the Crimean War opened a new era for Tsarist foreign policy in the second half of the nineteenth century, diminishing Russia’s prestige among the Western powers. In order to restore its prestige, ... -
Ottoman serhad organization in the Balkans (1450s to early 1500s)
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)This thesis analyses the Ottoman frontier organization in the Balkans from the second half of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth centuries. Based mainly on the archival documents, Ottoman chronicles, and the ... -
Ottoman home front mobilization and propaganda during the Balkan wars of 1912-1913
(Bilkent University, 2017-02)This thesis is an analysis of the Ottoman wartime propaganda for the home front during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 based on the activities of the National Defense League and Ottoman/Turkish periodicals. In particular, I ... -
The “King’s Bloody Advocate” or “Noble wit of Scotland”? Restoration Scotland and the case of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, 1636/38-1691 : neostoicism, politics and the origins of the Scottish enlightenment
(Bilkent University, 2017-02)The aim of this thesis is to assess Sir George Mackenzie’s (1636/38-1691) life allinclusively, deed and word, by taking his professed stoicism as the unifying force in his struggles to combat a “bigot age”. Remembered on ... -
The Ford administration against an assertive congress: the case of theTurkish arms embargo
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)This thesis focuses on Gerald Ford administration’s struggle with the assertive Congress in foreign policy in the case of the Turkish arms embargo. In this new sequence of ongoing executive-legislative tug of war for ... -
An Ayan family in Uşak: Paşaoğlullari hanedani
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The purpose of this research is to investigate the history of the Paşaoğulları family; a medium-scale local family that lived and flourished in Uşak in Western Anatolia. It can be said that investigating the history of ...
