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The Metamorphoses of Power
Violence, Warlords, Aḳıncıs and the Early Ottomans (1300–1450)
Series: - The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 76
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Controversial scholarly debates around the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire in the last century are not only rooted in the scarcity or heterogeneity of sources, but also in the mentalities and ideologies that canonised thought paradigms. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach at the interface between Ottoman, Byzantine, Mediterranean and Southeast European studies. Unusual sources such as Western Anatolian numismatics and predominantly European documents met innovative methods from the study of violence and power networks. Making a case study around the military
aḳıncı institution, the author re-evaluates the emergence of the Ottoman polity in dealing with various warlords and across multiple identities and political affiliations.
Adrian Gheorghe, Ph.D. (2015), Munich University, is a military historian of the early Ottomans and the late medieval Southeastern Europe. He is also one of the main editors of
Corpus Draculianum, which focus on the Wallachian
voivode Vlad the Impaler.
This interdisciplinary book is intended for a wider audience with knowledge of Ottoman and Southeastern European history, i.e. students and scholars of Ottoman, Byzantine and Eastern European studies.