CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Ocak, Derya |
|---|---|
| Title | Gift and Purpose: Diplomatic Gift Exchange between the Ottomans and Transylvania During the Reign of Istvan Bathory (1571-1576) |
| Summary | The act of giving to indicate the relations on both the individual and social level or on the inter-communal level continued to exist with its social, cultural, political and economic dimensions throughout the whole Ottoman period. I argue that gift exchange and the gifts as objects were tools to transmit messages, such as authority, prestige, power, hierarchy, superiority and inferiority in relations, to other people and political entities. Since it was impossible to be present in the Ottoman court without acknowledging sultan’s authority, it was not possible to attempt any negotiations, or establish a diplomatic relationship without gifts. As Michael Talbot says, “without friendship there could be no peace; but without gifts and royal letters, there could be no friendship.” |
| Supervisor | Tijana Krstić |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/ocak_derya.pdf |
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