CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Crummey, Nicholas Mazer |
|---|---|
| Title | Mapping a City in Motion: European Visitors' Perceptions of Edirne during the Reign of Mehmet IV |
| Summary | This thesis explores the ways Europeans perceived and mapped the city of Edirne when it was the seat of the Ottoman court in the 1670s. Using the highly personalized hand-drawn maps, sketches, and descriptions in the journal of John Covel, the chaplain to the British ambassador, the thesis traces the social networks, ceremonial geographies, and festival spaces available to European residents of the central Ottoman lands. Recent scholarship on European-Ottoman relations has stressed the importance of intermediaries and the networks of sociability present in Istanbul but has rarely ventured beyond the capital. This thesis argues that the shift of the court to Edirne in the second half the 17th century, and the subsequent costly trips ambassadors had to make there, stretched European sociability to a new geography, allowing them opportunities to interact with each other and with Ottoman subjects in new ways. Furthermore, it discerns a series of ceremonial circles radiating outwards from the palace in Edirne that organized the movements and perceptions of European visitors. |
| Supervisor | Börekçi, Günhan; Hennings, Jan |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/crummey_nicholas.pdf |
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