Browsing Dept. of History - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Issue Date
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"The letter kills, but the spirit gives life" : the rise of learning in the Franciscan order, 1210-1310
(Bilkent University, 2001)The historiography of medieval Franciscan education has been dominated by two general approaches that appear unjustifiable. The first has been to assume that the Franciscan educational organization was a later copy of ... -
Money and its use in the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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The first Dutch ambassador in Istanbul: Cornelis Haga and the Dutch capitulations of 1612
(Bilkent University, 2003)This dissertation evaluates the granting of capitulations to the Dutch Republic by the Ottoman Sultan in 1612, and early years of first Dutch ambassador Cornelis Haga. The United Provinces, formed by seven provinces of the ... -
Islam in Albanian lands during the first two centuries of the Ottoman rule
(Bilkent University, 2003)This dissertation provides a detailed picture of the religious situation in Albanian lands before the Ottoman conquest and analyzes the conditions upon the establishment of Ottoman rule and the initial stages of ... -
Paradigm regained : the Hutchinsonian reconstruction of Trinitarian Protestant Christianity (1724-1806)
(Bilkent University, 2003)Recently, there has been a considerable attempt by historians of eighteenth-century intellectual history to present the religious and conservative side of the Enlightenment thought. Hutchinsonianism, as an eighteenth-century ... -
The history of John Galt : past and present in the wake of the Enlightenment
(Bilkent University, 2003)The placing of the history of Enlightenment ideas and their implications in a wider social context has been an important characteristic of Enlightenment studies for some time. This thesis offers John Galt, the early ... -
The rise and fall of an Ayân family in eighteenth century Anatolia : the Caniklizâdes (1737-1808)
(Bilkent University, 2003)This thesis examines the rise and fall of the Caniklizâdes within the context of the redistribution of political and economic resources between the center and the periphery in the second half of the eighteenth century ... -
Family and estate : the Slupica family and Kuna 1390's - 1640's : a case study on the Ruthenian nobility in Eastern Podolia
(Bilkent University, 2005)The subject of this thesis is the Ruthenian family of the Shipica representing the upper gentry group of lords and their Kuna estate in Eastern Podolia (Bratslavshchyna). So far both the area itself, as well as, the ... -
Koca Nişancı" of Kanuni : Celalzade Mustafa Çelebi, Bureaucracy and "Kanun" in the reign of Süleyman the magnificent (1520-1566)
(Bilkent University, 2006)This dissertation analyzes the development of Ottoman administration and its consequences in political reasoning under the reign of Sultan Süleyman in the light of career and works of nişancı Celālzāde Mustafa Çelebi. ... -
British philosophical history and the empires of antiquity
(Bilkent University, 2006)Although eighteenth-century British empire may seem a topic much exhausted by historians, there is still room for fresh primary sources and new approaches. Ancient Greek and Roman histories published in eighteenth-century ... -
Friendship, crisis and estrangement : US-Italian relations, 1871-1920
(Bilkent University, 2007)In the 1870s, the united Kingdom of Italy brought together nearly the whole Italian peninsula under a single flag, and the United States left behind a civil war and strengthened the country and its institutions. This ... -
Depicting the enemy : Russians and Ottomans in the press during the First World War
(Bilkent University, 2007)The intricate course of events that led both the Russian and Ottoman Empires towards the Great War had been the culmination of long-lasting domestic and international developments, which were reflected in their policies ... -
Court chivalry and politics : nominations and elections to the order of the Garter : 1461-83
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis discusses the probable causes behind the nominations and elections of the knights to the Order of the Garter during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. The Study argues that various considerations ... -
Zâviye-Khankâhs and religious orders in the province of Karaman : the Seljukid, Karamaoğlu and the Ottoman periods, 1200-1512
(Bilkent University, 2008)This dissertation analyzes the dervish lodges and Sufi orders in the Province of Karaman of the Ottoman Empire. The main source for this dissertation is the Register of the Pious Foundations of the Province of Karaman ... -
Turkomans between two empires : the origins of the Qızılbash identity in Anatolia (1447-1514)
(Bilkent University, 2008)This thesis aims to evaluate the emergence of the Qizilbash Movement and the Qizilbash Identity during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century within the struggle between the Ottoman and the Safavid power. The ... -
Body, disease and late Ottoman literature : debates on Ottoman muslim family in the Tanzimat period (1839-1908)
(Bilkent University, 2008)This study analyzes the development and transformation of Ottoman population policies and medical regulations together with their social impact in the Tanzimat Period. It also aims to document the transformation of Ottoman ... -
"Made in Massachusetts" : converting hides and skins into leather and Turkish immigrants into industrial laborers (1860s-1920s)
(Bilkent University, 2010)Early twentieth-century America witnessed a large influx of immigrants largely from eastern and southern Europe as well as the Near East. The major “pull” factor stimulating the growth of migration was the rise of several ... -
The patriarch and the sultan : the struggle for authority and the quest for order in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 2011)In the eighteenth century, the Rum Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul underwent a series of changes that were the result of eighteenth-century economic and social developments in Ottoman society. This study investigates ... -
Reassessing the tımar system : the case study of Vidin (1455-1693)
(Bilkent University, 2012)
