Reconstructing Yenice-i Vardar : Patronage of the Evrenosoğlu Family / by Yasemin Umur.

By: Language: English Publication details: İstanbul : Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2008.Description: ix, 245 p. : illus. ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA1375 U48 2008
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pre-Conquest Period -- Chapter 3. The Town of Yenice-i Vardar according to the sixteenth Century Tax Surveys -- Chapter 4. Evrenosoğlu Family : Politics of Patronage -- Gazi Evrenos Building a Town -- The Patronage of Evrenosoğlu Ahmet Bey -- Chapter 5. Conclusions.
Dissertation note: Thesis (MBA) -- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi , İstanbul, 2008. Summary: Underlying this thesis in the conjecture that the Evrenosoğlu Family's patronage activities between the late fourteenth and the mid sixteenth centuries, and the destiny of their power base Yenice-i Vardar, were not independent of the political developments of the early Ottoman period. My premise is that unless the major edifices of the Evrenosoğlu family are placed in the proper context in which they were built, their meanings remain obscure, and their contemporary intentions lost. When viewed from this perspective, Evrenosoğlu patronage acts not only as an instrument for achieving various political and social goals or as a legitimizing device that could even challenge the authority of the Sultan, but also as a tool of resistance, a way to asset identity in the face of the threat posed by the centralizing Ottoman state.
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Thesis (MBA) -- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi , İstanbul, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245)

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Pre-Conquest Period -- Chapter 3. The Town of Yenice-i Vardar according to the sixteenth Century Tax Surveys -- Chapter 4. Evrenosoğlu Family : Politics of Patronage -- Gazi Evrenos Building a Town -- The Patronage of Evrenosoğlu Ahmet Bey -- Chapter 5. Conclusions.

Underlying this thesis in the conjecture that the Evrenosoğlu Family's patronage activities between the late fourteenth and the mid sixteenth centuries, and the destiny of their power base Yenice-i Vardar, were not independent of the political developments of the early Ottoman period. My premise is that unless the major edifices of the Evrenosoğlu family are placed in the proper context in which they were built, their meanings remain obscure, and their contemporary intentions lost. When viewed from this perspective, Evrenosoğlu patronage acts not only as an instrument for achieving various political and social goals or as a legitimizing device that could even challenge the authority of the Sultan, but also as a tool of resistance, a way to asset identity in the face of the threat posed by the centralizing Ottoman state.

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