Ali Yaycıoğlu – Death in Athens (1795): (Re)thinking Ottoman Provincial Order through a Probate Inventory – 20/12/2017
Mercredi 20 décembre 2017 à 18hAli Yaycıoğlu (Université de Stanford)intervention en anglais inscription avant le 20 décembre à midi : https://www.inscription-facile.com/form/C1mNUvPABETyP5W9pfE9 « Death in Athens (1795): (Re)thinking Ottoman Provincial Order through a Probate Inventory » This talk examines power, wealth, and death in the Ottoman Empire. What was power and wealth and how were these two related in the Ottoman Order? Under the light of this question, Ali Yaycıoğlu explores what happened when a powerful and wealthy person died; how power and wealth fashioned death and postmortem condition, crises, and settlement. What was the nature of the involvement of the state, as a regulatory mechanism and/or as the claimant of the estate of the deceased? How did assets, objects and immovable
