The Urban/Rural Divide in the Early Modern Period
A Microhistorical Study of an Episode in Joseph Emin’s Life and Adventures
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The major developments of the early modern period had an uneven impact on urban and rural dwellers, leading to divergences in worldview and mentality between the two demographics. This article reflects upon these differences through a microhistorical study of an episode in Joseph Emin’s Life and Adventures, where Emin, an eighteenth-century “port Armenian” encounters Armenian villagers in the Ottoman town of Jinis. My reading of this episode provides a focus for broader reflections on the growing divergences between the viewpoints of a port Armenian like Emin, who was connected to the developments taking place in the early modern world, and that of rural dwellers like the local villagers and priest of Jinis, who were largely disconnected from the same developments.
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The Urban/Rural Divide in the Early Modern Period
A Microhistorical Study of an Episode in Joseph Emin’s Life and Adventures
In: Journal of the Society for Armenian StudiesSearch for other papers by Jesse Siragan Arlen in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
The major developments of the early modern period had an uneven impact on urban and rural dwellers, leading to divergences in worldview and mentality between the two demographics. This article reflects upon these differences through a microhistorical study of an episode in Joseph Emin’s Life and Adventures, where Emin, an eighteenth-century “port Armenian” encounters Armenian villagers in the Ottoman town of Jinis. My reading of this episode provides a focus for broader reflections on the growing divergences between the viewpoints of a port Armenian like Emin, who was connected to the developments taking place in the early modern world, and that of rural dwellers like the local villagers and priest of Jinis, who were largely disconnected from the same developments.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 357 | 84 | 10 |
| Full Text Views | 28 | 3 | 3 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 66 | 5 | 0 |
