Imperial Harem Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

Name: Imperial Harem Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
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ISBN: 9780195086775

ISBN-10: 0195086775

ISBN-13: 9780195086775

Edition: 1993

Authors: Leslie P. Peirce

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The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction Myths and Realities of the Harem



The House of Osman



Wives and Concubines: the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries



The Age of the Favorite: 1520-1566



The Age of the Queen Mother: 1566-1656



The Imperial Harem Institution



Shifting Images of Ottoman Sovereignty



The Display of Sovereign Prerogative



The Politics of Diplomacy



The Exercise of Political Power


Conclusion: Women, Sovereignty, and Society


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index