CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Karakelle, Seyfettin Dogan |
|---|---|
| Title | Horses and Sultan Ahmed I: Learning, Interspecies Communication, and the Early Modern Ottoman Empire |
| Summary | There has been an inflation of actors in historical studies during the twentieth century. Discussions on topics such as class, gender, race, and more recently the environment has introduced a multitude of actors in historical writing and causation. Although animal-human histories has recently gained traction, the problem of introducing animal as agents still remains. This thesis, studying interspecies communication and exploring, specifically, how human-horse interactions and communication relate to the making of empires attempts to deal with the question of animal agency. The main source that is studied is a manuscript entitled The Gift of Rulers and Sultans (Tuhfetü&# x2019;l-Mü lûk ve’s-Selâtin). This is a book on horses from the early seventeenth-century prepared for a young Ottoman sultan, Ahmed I. Through studying knowledge circulation, learning, how humans interacted with horses within human cosmologies, as well as how the body of knowledge that The Gift presents was produced, I will argue that interspecies communication was key in the making of the Ottoman Empire. |
| Supervisor | Radway, Robyn; Kontler, Laszlo |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/karakelle_seyfettin.pdf |
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