CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Riesinger, Fabian Leonardo |
|---|---|
| Title | Making an Island: The Transformation(s) of Rhodes under Early Ottoman Rule (1522-1560) |
| Summary | From 1310 to 1522 the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint John, had their headquarters on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Rhodes. After an unsuccessful siege in 1480, the Ottoman Empire conquered the island and the eponymous city-fortress in 1522. This paper explores three perspectives on transformations kicked off by the Ottoman takeover of Rhodes. Examining contemporary historiography allows for an approach centered on the individual participants in the siege. I have identified them in Ottoman fetiḥ-nāmes, conquest diaries, and the Venetian Diarii of Marino Sanuto. And over the early Ottoman period of Rhodes, the island changed tangibly. To investigate this, I survey the architectural transformations of Rhodes-City from the 16th century on. New and restored structures served the logistic but also spiritual accommodation of the new arrivals. Finally, Rhodes’ changing position in the Eastern Mediterranean networks of power is relatable from the surviving mühimme registers of the 1550s and the 1560s. These minutes from the Porte to local officials allow us to glimpse both the military-political use of the island and the lives of those who inhabited it. |
| Supervisor | Börekçi, Günhan |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/riesinger_fabian.pdf |
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