Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World : The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 (Paperback)

Part I. Plague: History and Historiography: 1. A natural history of plague; 2. Plague in Ottomanist and non-Ottomanist historiography; 3. The Black Death and its aftermath (1347?1453); Part II. Plague of Empire: 4. The first phase (1453?1517): plague comes from the West; 5. The second phase (1517?70): multiple plague trajectories; 6. The third phase (1570?1600): Istanbul as plague hub; Part III. Empire of Plague: 7. Plague transformed: changing perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes; 8. The state of the plague: politics of bodies in the making of the Ottoman state; Epilogue.