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Guéno | Knost

Lire et écrire l'histoire ottomane

Ergon,  2016, 226 Pages

ISBN 978-3-95650-147-0


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The work is part of the series Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS) (Volume 81)
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englischSince the 1980s, written documents generated by the Ottoman law courts constitute the single most frequently used primary source by historians of Ottoman Bilād al-Šām. The result is a large number of studies using many of these documents, usually from several different registers. Rarely, however, do the historians invite readers to share in a critical and focused discussion of a select few of these documentary sources. The contributors to this volume reveal the difficulties and questions they face in reading and interpreting handwritten documents, often carelessly recorded in a formulaic and elliptical language. The diverse studies collected here present a wide range of documents issued in legal practice, disclose the process of deciphering manuscripts, and set forth the differing readings and informal usages of this kind of source.