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Item Open Access Early modern Ottoman politics of emotion: what has love got to do with it?(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020) Tekgül, NilDespite a growing interest worldwide in the history of emotions, the topic has attracted the attention of scholars of Ottoman history only recently. In an attempt to understand the motivations underlying political undertakings, this article explores emotions, with a specific focus on mahabbet (love) and merhamet (compassion). It examines the social meaning attached to and the cultural importance of love and compassion in early modern Ottoman political language. I claim that as a socially constructed and political emotion, compassion was historically and culturally significant, serving as a tool to formulate political relations of domination and subordination.Item Restricted Georgics of the Mind: The Experience of Bacon's Essays(1996) Fish, Stanley