Varlık maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. The book argues that the empire’s growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and nonhuman agents. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers’ accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nukhet Varlık demonstrates how plague interacted ¨ with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600 This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. 8 The State of the Plague: Politics of Bodies in the Making of the Ottoman State. 7 Plague Transformed: Changing Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes. 6 The Third Phase (1570-1600): Istanbul as Plague Hub. 5 The Second Phase (1517-1570): Multiple Plague Trajectories. 4 The First Phase (1453-1517): Plague Comes from the West. 3 The Black Death and Its Aftermath (1347-1453). 2 Plague in Ottomanist and Non-Ottomanist Historiography.
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