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The religion of the gentry and middling classes: the English Reformation as reflected in wills, 1509-1553
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to present and analyse statistical data of the religion of the gentry and middling classes as reflected in 1997 wills between 1509 to 1553, during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI. In ... -
The transformation of an itinerant army: from the Catalan Company to the Catalan Duchy of Athens and Neopatras (1303-1388)
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis examines the transformation of the Catalan Company into a political, social and cultural institution from the arrival of the Company at Constantinople in September 1303 until the fall of Catalan Athens to the ... -
‘‘Réalta an chruinne caitir fhíona’’: the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval Scotland
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This thesis succinctly investigates the chronological traces and the historical development of the cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval Scotland. The main argument of this study evolves around why possibly ... -
The conditions and methods of the land travels of the Ottoman subjects during the pre-modern era
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)Traveling in the Ottoman Empire during the pre-modern times was challenging and dangerous for everyone, but much so for civilians. Furthermore, the central authority discouraged the mobility of civilians, and wanted them ... -
The Pomaks: conversion to islam in the Western Rhodope mountains in the 15th century
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)In this thesis, the religious conversion process among the local population in the Western Rhodope, an area under the rule of the Ottoman Empire,is examined. The importance and location of the Rhodope during the expansion ... -
A study over tax and relationship formed around taxation in the Ottoman Empire (16th-17th century)
(Bilkent University, 2019-06)This thesis inspects the relationship between ruling class and subject class during the early modern period of Ottoman Empire (16th-17th centuries). The study argues that ruling class who was entitled to collect taxes were ... -
Electrification of İstanbul (1878-1923)
(Bilkent University, 2019-02)This dissertation focuses on the history of introduction and development of electrical technology in Ottoman Istanbul with a special focus on the 1910 concession, and its implementation, which was held to construct the ... -
The news agencies in the Ottoman Empire: Havas, Reuters and the Ottoman Telegraph Agency (1862-1914)
(Bilkent University, 2019-01)Established in the nineteenth century, Havas, Reuters and Wolff’s became three major and influential news agencies in the world. Especially Havas and Reuters gave utmost importance to the Ottoman Empire and competed to ... -
Ottoman oil concessions during the Hamidian Era (1876–1909)
(Bilkent University, 2018-12)This thesis evaluates the Ottoman oil concessions in the Hamidian Era (1876–1909), by focusing on Abdulhamid II’s famous "balanced policy" in the international affairs of the Empire. The study argues that there was an ... -
“The free speech league: a study on the ideas about the freedom of speech during the progressive era”
(Bilkent University, 2018-11)The period of Progressive Era that predates the World War I was vivid with government involvement in freedom of speech in different forms. The censorship laws as well as the prevention and criminalization of public speeches ... -
Unaccompanied children: UNRRA and displaced children in the United States‟ zone of occupied Germany (1945-1947)
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)After World War II the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was tasked with providing assistance to millions of displaced people in Europe including unaccompanied children discovered in the US ... -
The administrative, economic and social relations of Sofia in the 18th century: an essay of the spatial analysis
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)In this thesis, Sofia which was the pasha sandjaghi of the Rumelian Eyalet in the 18th century is discussed. The administrative, social and economic relations of Sofia are studied within the context of spatial analysis. ... -
"Wilson VS. Lenin" revisited: The contending ideas of a new world order
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)The Great War brought destruction and death when it got unleashed with the bullet of an assassin in 1914. Yet, this was also the beginning of a New Order as much as being the end of the Old Order. The forerunners of this ... -
The imdâdiyye taxes in the Ottoman finance
(Bilkent University, 2018-07)In the course of the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire struggled at maintaining its traditional structures due to the many wars, the financial problems, demographic changes, budgetary deficits, and the political and ... -
Photography and politics in Iran in the Naseri period (1848-1896)
(Bilkent University, 2018-06)This dissertation is written to address the history of photography of Iran during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah. The fundamental characteristic of this period is breaking new ground in social and political realms. During ... -
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. ...
