Podcasts by Palmira Brummett
Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early ... more Where did the Ottomans fit within the geographical understandings of Christian kingdoms in early modern Europe? How did Europeans reconcile the notion of "the Turk" as other with the reality of an Ottoman presence in the Balkans and Eastern Europe? What was the relationship between the maps and representations of Ottoman space in Europe and the self-mapping carried out by the Ottomans in maps and miniatures? These are some of the major questions addressed by our guest Palmira Brummett in her new book Mapping the Ottomans, which uses maps to study early modern space and time, travel, the flow of information, claims to sovereignty, and cross-cultural encounters between the Ottomans neighboring Christian polities.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Issue 44 (2014) by Palmira Brummett
The literature of “encounter” has enriched our sense of who the Ottomans were and how they were d... more The literature of “encounter” has enriched our sense of who the Ottomans were and how they were described by their various others. And although the notion of encounter comprises interaction at the levels of group, commune, state, and empire,
it is most expressive when it presumes the individual – a person for whom these larger entities are made manifest in the figures of individual personalities. This paper thus takes as its subject the “telling” of individuals in Ottoman space by individuals coming from the spaces of the European Christian kings. I hope, thereby, to comment on how the Ottoman individual was “told” in the context of imperial competition and conversation, and to draw that individual off the page through compiling a set of
descriptors by which he or she was made “real” for the teller’s audience. I address the idea of encounter and the (possible) transformation of that idea as it relates to ‘European’ encounters with the Ottoman citizen individual, using as examples three late sixteenth and two eighteenth century travelers. Finally, I want to comment briefly on periodization, the ways in which the eighteenth century may or may not be detached from the preceding era when it comes to the genre(s) of encounter.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Papers by Palmira Brummett
“Visualizing Ottoman Space: Choiseul-Gouffier and the Passage Through Anatolia, 1776” in Frank Castiglione, Ethan Menchinger, and Veysel Şimşek, eds. Ottoman War and Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan . Brill., 2019
This essay examines the Voyage pittoresque of the Frenchman Marie-Gabriel-Auguste-Florent Choiseu... more This essay examines the Voyage pittoresque of the Frenchman Marie-Gabriel-Auguste-Florent Choiseul-Gouffier (1752-1817) and its imagery of an expedition overland through Anatolia in 1776. I think Choiseul is a fitting denizen for this collection because it was Virginia Aksan who first introduced me to this emblematic figure in the construction of visions of the Ottomans and Ottoman-French relations in the eighteenth century.1 Choiseul, descendant of a noble household and a scholar of ancient Greece, would later serve as French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1784-1791/1792). But the trip addressed here was a preliminary sojourn into Ottoman space, a search for knowledge and antiquities reaching from the islands of the Aegean to the hinterlands of Anatolia. On his return from this exploratory expedition, Choiseul would publish the first volume of his Voyage in 1782.2 It (and subsequent volumes) would be published in multiple editions in the ensuing years.3 My intention here is to examine one episode taken from that first volume. This episode, documenting
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Librosdelacorte, 2023
This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out of early moder... more This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out of early modern narratives and visuals (particularly maps). These overlapping models, for the long sixteenth century, are: 1) itinerary; 2) empire; and 3) predator, all of which appear under the broader frame of geographic-commercial space that is either conflicted or pacific. I employ a preliminary narrative, The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo, by Coriolano Cippico, a galley commander in the Ottoman-Venetian conflict of 1470-1474; then, the isolario of Giovanni Camocio, as it appeared in the aftermath of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Camocio's maps focus attention on that battle and on imperial conflict. But his vision of the Mediterranean is that of a range of familiar, maritime spaces dotted with fortresses and harbors, sometimes enmeshed in conflict and more often not.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : Selim Deringil; Sinan Kuneralp. Studies on Ottoman Diplo... more Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : Selim Deringil; Sinan Kuneralp. Studies on Ottoman Diplomatic History V-- İstanbul: ISIS Press, 1990
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Osmanlı Araştırmaları, May 1, 2015
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Entertainment Among the Ottomans, 2019
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam
... The Turks referred to the Persians as Azamini (acem) before the reign of the Sufi, Ismail, bu... more ... The Turks referred to the Persians as Azamini (acem) before the reign of the Sufi, Ismail, but ... said that Ismail was sent by God to announce that his sect [twelver Shi'ism] was the ... were generally not cognizant of the exact distinctions between Sunni and Shi'i within Islamic practice. ...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Ottoman Women in Public Space, 2016
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The Historical Journal, 1993
ABSTRACTThis essay examines the relative power of the Rhodian and Ottoman fleets in the first dec... more ABSTRACTThis essay examines the relative power of the Rhodian and Ottoman fleets in the first decades of the sixteenth century, taking as its context the commercial and diplomatic relations of the eastern Levantine states. After the Aegean wars of 1499–1503 Rhodes failed to mobilize a Christian alliance against the Ottomans. Nor did the rise of Ismail Safavi in Iran provide the hoped for relief from Ottoman expansion. While the Ottoman state was preoccupied with the succession struggle for Bayezid's throne and with plans to extend its hegemony to the Indian Ocean, Rhodes was fighting for survival. Although the development of the Ottoman fleet provoked great fear in Rhodes, Venice and the Mamluk kingdom, Ottoman naval power until the conquest of Cairo in 151J was directed primarily to defensive and transport activities. Further the Ottoman fleet provided security against corsairs for merchant shipping. By supporting the corsair activities of Order members, Rhodes alienated the Mamluk state, Venice and France (allpotential allies in an anti-Ottoman coalition) but refrained from directly challenging the Ottoman navy. Naval engagements during this period cannot be understood without taking into consideration the prolonged conditions of grain shortage in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Both aggressive and defensive measures taken by the Ottoman, Venetian and Rhodian fleets Were ordinarily related to the competition for foodstuffs during this period rather than the conquest of territory or the establishment of commercial dominance (as in the Indian Ocean).
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
New Perspectives on Turkey, 1991
Historiography generally has excluded the “oriental” empires from the competition for world econo... more Historiography generally has excluded the “oriental” empires from the competition for world economic power. The Chinese sailed to Africa in the early fifteenth century. Then one day the ships “just stopped coming.” The Mongols “swept” across the steppes for the love of conquest, pastures, space. The Ottoman armies marched to Yemen, Tabriz, Vienna. Yet this marching was somehow instinctual, a reaction of blood, training, temperament. One might suppose that this “oriental” failure to be an economic contender resulted from a state of mind rather than an act of will, a naiveté or an intellectual conceit rather than a lack of the power to compete. Thus, while Eurocentric historiography has not disarmed the Ottomans, it has mentally incapacitated them, thereby dispensing with the need to evaluate economies of conquest and ignoring competition with European states for markets rather than territory.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The Religions of the Book, 2008
In 1689, Bernard Randolph, in an English work entitled, The Present State of the Morea, wrote of ... more In 1689, Bernard Randolph, in an English work entitled, The Present State of the Morea, wrote of the long and intermittent Ottoman siege of Candia on Crete, which culminated in Candia’s surrender in September of 1669: “All Europe has heard of this great Siege, how many thousand Bombs were cast into the City; How many Mines, and Fornellos were blown up; and how many bold assaults the Turks made…”1 Randolph’s quote suggests a certain level of familiarity, a European audience attuned to the activities and advances of “the Turk.”2 While his claim is certainly overstated, if “all Europe” was not familiar with the details of the Ottoman wars in the Mediterranean, then at least certain members of the English literate classes were; and many others had learned to fear the Turk from broadsheets and the sermons of their clergymen. Just how familiar Europeans were with the nature or scope of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern era is, of course, the subject of considerable scholarly debate. The era itself has been called a: “… three centuries-long Christian-Muslim jihad that began around 1500.”3 Nabil Matar, in Turks, Moors, and Englishmen, has argued for seventeenth-century English familiarity with the Turk, juxtaposing the image of the familiar Turk to that of the novel American Indian, both peoples who required civilizing-conquest. One possessed the old Jerusalem, one inhabited the site of the new.4
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
International History Review, 1989
... Ikinci Bayezidin H. 904-906/1498-1500 Yillarinda Adalar Deniz'ine Seferi', ... more ... Ikinci Bayezidin H. 904-906/1498-1500 Yillarinda Adalar Deniz'ine Seferi', Erdem, i (1985), 789-99, on the ships being built for Kemal Reis. Page 4. 6 1 6 Palmira Brummett of naval expansion which was to continue through the reign of his son and successor, Selim I (r. 1512-...
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Oriente Moderno, 2001
Students often happen to accept and transmit absurd information that, in turn, is believed on the... more Students often happen to accept and transmit absurd information that, in turn, is believed on their authority. Al-Mas'udi, for in stance, reports such a story about Alexander. Sea monsters pre vented Alexander from building Alexandria. He took a wooden container in which a glass box was inserted, and dived in it to the bottom of the sea. There he drew pictures of the devilish monsters he saw. He then had metal effigies of these animals made and set them up opposite the place where building was going on. When the monsters came out and saw the effigies, they fled. Alexander was thus able to complete the building of Alexandria.1
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The Renaissance and the Ottoman World , 2013
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam, ed. John Tolan, 1996
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Uploads
Podcasts by Palmira Brummett
Issue 44 (2014) by Palmira Brummett
it is most expressive when it presumes the individual – a person for whom these larger entities are made manifest in the figures of individual personalities. This paper thus takes as its subject the “telling” of individuals in Ottoman space by individuals coming from the spaces of the European Christian kings. I hope, thereby, to comment on how the Ottoman individual was “told” in the context of imperial competition and conversation, and to draw that individual off the page through compiling a set of
descriptors by which he or she was made “real” for the teller’s audience. I address the idea of encounter and the (possible) transformation of that idea as it relates to ‘European’ encounters with the Ottoman citizen individual, using as examples three late sixteenth and two eighteenth century travelers. Finally, I want to comment briefly on periodization, the ways in which the eighteenth century may or may not be detached from the preceding era when it comes to the genre(s) of encounter.
Papers by Palmira Brummett
it is most expressive when it presumes the individual – a person for whom these larger entities are made manifest in the figures of individual personalities. This paper thus takes as its subject the “telling” of individuals in Ottoman space by individuals coming from the spaces of the European Christian kings. I hope, thereby, to comment on how the Ottoman individual was “told” in the context of imperial competition and conversation, and to draw that individual off the page through compiling a set of
descriptors by which he or she was made “real” for the teller’s audience. I address the idea of encounter and the (possible) transformation of that idea as it relates to ‘European’ encounters with the Ottoman citizen individual, using as examples three late sixteenth and two eighteenth century travelers. Finally, I want to comment briefly on periodization, the ways in which the eighteenth century may or may not be detached from the preceding era when it comes to the genre(s) of encounter.