Last updated 8/2003

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: LATE BYZANTINE & EARLY OTTOMAN GREEKS

 

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Geuffroy, Antoine. The order of the greate Turckes courte, of hys menne of warre, and of all hys conquestes, with the summe of Mahumetes doctryne. Translated out of Frenche. 1524 [sic]. [London]: Ricardus Grafton excudebat, 1542.

 

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Philippides, Marios. Emperors, Patriarchs, and Sultans of Constantinople, 1373-1513: An Anonymous Greek Chronicle of the Sixteenth Century. Hellenic College Press: 1990.

 

Talbot, Alice-Mary, ed. Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saint’s Lives in English Translation. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996

 

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Secondary Sources

 

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Barber, Charles. (1992) “Reading the garden in Byzantium: Nature and sexuality.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 16):1-19.

 

Barkey, Karen. “In different times: Scheduling and social control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1650.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38 (3), 460-483.

 

Bayerle, Gustav. (1997) Pashas, Begs and Effendis: A Historical Dictionary of Titles and Terms in the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul: Isis Press.

 

Berger, Albrecht. (2000) “Streets and Public Spaces in Constantinople.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54, 161-172.

 

Berkey, Jonathan. (1999) “Women in Medieval Islamic Society.” Women in Medieval Western European Culture (Linda E. Mitchell, ed.) NY: Garland Publishing, 95-116.

 

Bouras, Charalambos. (2002) “Aspects of the Byzantine City, Eighth-Fifteenth Centuries.” The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 489-520.

 

Bryer, Anthony. (2002) “The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscles and Tools” in The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, edited by Angeliki Laiou. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 101-113.

 

Carboni, Stephano and David Whitehouse. (2001) Glass of the Sultans. New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

Cavallo, Gugliemo, ed. (1997) The Byzantines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Cirakman, Asli. (2002) From the “Terror of the World” to the “Sick Man of Europe:” European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. New York: P. Lang.

 

Cizakca, Murat. (1980)  “Price history and the Bursa silk industry: A study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550-1650.” Journal of Economic History, 40(3), 533-550.

 

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Cutler, Anthony. (2002) “The Industries of Art.” The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 547-579.

 

Emmanuel, Melita. (1994) "Hairstyles and Headdresses of Empresses, Princesses and Ladies of the Aristocracy in Byzantium," Deltion tes Christianikes Archaiologikes Etaireias, volume dedicated to the memory of Doula Mouriki, vol. 17, 113-120.

 

Evyapan, Gonul Aslanoglu. Old Turkish Gardens. Available on ArchNet Digital Library http://archnet.org/institutions/METUA-ARCH/library/publications/documents.tcl?collection_id=1341. Last accessed 2/6/2003

 

Faroqhi, Suraiya. (1995) Coping with the State: Political Conflict and Crime in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1720. Istanbul: Isis Press.

 

Faroqhi, Suraiya. (1995) Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480-1820. Istanbul: Isis Press.

 

Fledelius, Karsten. (1982) "Women's Position and Possibilities in Byzantine Society with Particular Reference to the Novels of Leo VI," Jahrbuch der österreichischen

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Francois, Veroniqu and Jean-Michel Spieser. (2002)  “Pottery and Glass in Byzantium.” The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 585-601.

 

Galatariotou, Catia. (1985) "Holy Women and Witches: Aspects of Byzantine Conceptions of Gender," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 9, 55-96.

 

Gerber, Haim. (1980)  “Social and Economic Position of Women in an Ottoman City, Bursa, 1600-1700.” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 12 (3), 231-244.

 

Gerber, Haim. (1994) State, Society and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press.

 

Gerstel, Sharon E.J. (1998) "Painted Sources for Female Piety in Medieval Byzantium, Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 52.

 

Gill, J. (1985) "Matrons and Brides of 14th Century Byzantium," Byzantinische Forschungen 9, 39-56.

 

Goffman, Daniel. (2002)  The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Hambly, Gavin R.G., ed. (1998)  "Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety," New Middle Ages, Vol. 6. London: St. Martin's Press.

 

Havice, Christine. (1999) "Approaching Medieval Women Through Medieval Art." Women in Medieval Western European Culture (Linda E. Mitchell, ed.), NewYork: Garland Publishing, 345-386.

 

Herrin, Judith. (1984) "In Search of Byzantine Women: Three Avenues of Approach," in Images of Women in Antiquity. (eds. Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt), London: 167-89.

 

Hopwood, Keith. (1997)  "Byzantine Princesses and Lustful Turks." Rape in Antiquity, edited by Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce. Swansea: Classical Press/Duckworth, 231-242.

 

Inalcik, Halil and Donald Quataert, eds. (1997) An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, vol 1 1300-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

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Jensen, De Lamar. (1985) "The Ottoman Turks in Sixteenth Century French Diplomacy," Sixteenth Century Journal, 16(4), 451-470.

 

Karlin-Hayter, P. (1990) "Indissolubility and the 'greater evil,' Three 13th-century divorce cases," Church and People in Byzantium, ed. R. Morris. Birmingham: 87-105.

 

Kazhdan, Alexander. (1998) "Women at Home," Dumbarton Oaks Papers  52, 1-17.

 

Labalme, Patricia H. and White, Laura Sanguineti. (1999) "How to (and how not to) Get Married in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Selections from the Diaries of Marin

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Laiou, Angeliki E., ed. (2002) The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

 

Laiou, Angeliki E. (1992) Gender, Society and Economic Life in Byzantium. Brookfield, VT: Variorum..

 

Laiou, Angeliki E. (2002) “The Human Resources” in The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, edited by Angeliki Laiou. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 47-55.

 

Laiou, Angeliki E. (1986) “The Festival of ‘Agathe’: Comments on the Life of Constantinopolitan Women,” Byzantion, Aphieroma ston Andrea N. Strato, 1 Athens: 111-122.

 

Laiou, Angeliki E. (1999) "Women in Byzantine Society." Women in Medieval Western European Culture (Linda E. Mitchell, ed.), New York: Garland Publishing, 81-94.

 

Lewis, Bernard. (1972; 1963) Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

Littlewood, Antony, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, eds. (2002) Byzantine Garden Culture. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

 

Magdalino, Paul. (2002) “Medieval Constantinople: Built Environment and Urban Development.” The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 521-529.

 

Maguire, Henry, and Robert Ousterhout.  (2000) “Constantinople: Fabric of the City Dumbarton Oaks Symposium 1998 Introduction.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54, 157-159.

 

Maguire, Henry. (2000)  “Gardens and Parks in Constantinople.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54, 251-64.

 

Maguire, Henry.  (2002) “Paradise Within.” In Byzantine Garden Culture, Washington DC : Dumbarton Oaks, 23-35.

 

Mango, Marlia Mundell. (2000)  “The Commercial Map of Constantinople.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54, 189-207.

 

Manners, Ian R. (1997) “Constructing the Image of a City: The Representation of Constantinople in Christopher Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum Archipelagi.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87 (1), 72-102.

 

Mansel, Philip. (1998) Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire. Griffen.

 

Matschke, Klaus-Peter. (2002) “The Late Byzantine Urban Economy, Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries.” The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

 

Monnas, L. and H. Granger-Taylor (eds.). (1989) Ancient and Medieval Textiles: Studies in Honour of Donald King. Textile History, 20, Pasold research fund.

 

Muthesius, Anna. (2002) “Essential Processes, Looms, and Technical Aspects of the Production of Silk Textiles.” In The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century. Angeliki E. Laiou, ed. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 147-168.

 

Nicol, Donald M. (1994) The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Oikonomides, Nicholas. (1990) "The Contents of the Byzantine House from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 44. 205-214.

 

Parani, M. G. (2000) "Byzantine Bridal Costume.” Dorema. A Tribute to the A. G. Leventis Foundation on the Occasion of its Twentieth Anniversary. Nicosia, 185-216.

 

Petrakis, Joan. The Needle Arts of Greece, Design and Techniques. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977.

 

Redna, Gunsel, ed. (1993) Women in Anatolia: 9000 Years of Anatolian Women. Istanbul, Turkish Republic Ministry of Culture.

 

Rogers, J.M. (1982). “The State and the Arts in Ottoman Turkey, Pt. 2: The Furniture and Decoration of the Suleymaniye,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 14(3), 283-313.

 

Rogers, Robert. (2002)  “Garden Making and Garden Culture in the Geoponika.” In Byzantine Garden Culture, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 159-175.

 

Rozen, Minna. (2002) A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566. Boston: Brill.

 

Runciman, Steven. (1984) "Women in Byzantine Aristocratic Society," in M. Angold, ed., The Byzantine Aristocracy IX-XIII Centuries. Oxford:10-22.

 

Scarborough, John. (2002) “Herbs of the Field and Herbs of the Garden in Byzantine Medicinal Pharmacy.”  Byzantine Garden Culture. Edited by Antony Littlewood, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 177-188.

 

Scarce, Jennifer. (1987) Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East. London: Unwin.

 

Stavrides, Theoharis. (2001) The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474). Boston: Brill.

 

Taft, Robert F., S.J. (1998) "Women at Church in Byzantium: Where, When--and Why?" Dumbarton Oaks Papers  52, 27-87.

 

Tahar, Mansouri, (2000)  "Byzantine Women in Muslim World, Onomastical Study, " Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. XI, Athens.

 

Talbot, Alice-Mary. (1997) “Women,” in Guglielmo Cavallo, ed., The Byzantines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 117-143.

 

Talbot, Alice-Mary and Alexander Kazhdan. (1994)  "The Byzantine Cult of St. Photeine," Byzantinische Forschungen. Presence of Byzantium: Studies Presented to  Milton V. Anastos in Honor of His Eighty-Fifth Birthday, 20: 103-112.

 

Taylor, Roderick. (1998) Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus. Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books

 

(1990) Traveling among the Cyclades Islands, 16th-19th century, Cultural Centre, Megaro Gyzi, Santorini .

 

Trilling, James. (1983) Aegean Crossroads: Greek Island Embroideries in the Textile Museum. With Ralph S. Hattox, and Lilo Markrich. Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1983.

 

Yiannias, JJ, ed. (1991) The Byzantine Tradition after the Fall of Constantinople. Charlottesville & London.

 

 

Modern Cookbooks

 

Redon, Odile, Francoise Sabban and Silvano Serventi. (1998) The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy. Translated by Edward Schneider. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Recipe Club of St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral. (1991) The Complete Book of Greek Cooking. New York: Harper Perennial.

 

Woodward, Sarah. (2001) The Ottoman Kitchen. New York: Interlink.

 

 

Internet Sites

 

Benaki Museum (Athens) http://www.benaki.gr/index-en.htm. Last accessed 12/30/2002.

 

Bibliography on Women in Byzantium 2002. Dumbarton Oaks, 2002.  http://www.doaks.org/WomeninByzantium.html , last accessed 11/26/2002.

 

British Museum http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ . Use “COMPASS” to search their online database. Last accessed 12/30/2002.

 

Cariadoc's Miscellany http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html. Last accessed 1/2/2003.

 

“The Costumes of Ottoman Women,” on the Turkish Ministry of Culture website, http://www.kultur.gov.tr/portal/tarih_en.asp?belgeno=4595 . Accessed multiple times in July 2002.

 

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, http://www.doaks.org/ Last accessed 12/30/2002.

 

Levantia (Tim Dawson’s web site) http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tdawson/levantia/index.html

 

 Museum of Gardening, London. http://www.cix.co.uk/~museumgh/plants.htm. Last accessed 12/19/2002.

 

Greek Jewelry, 5,000 Years of Tradition. http://www.addgr.com/jewel/elka/index.html. Last accessed 2/3/2003.

 

Gallery of Byzantine Art. http://www.rom.on.ca/galleries/byzantine/byzindex.html. Royal Ontario Museum’s online exhibit of Byzantine jewelry. Last accessed 2/3/2003.

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. http://www.mfa.org. Last accessed 1/31/2003. Online catalog contains numerous images of their collection of 16th C Ottoman silk textiles.

 

Silk and Wool: Ottoman Textile Designs in Turkish Rugs by Gerard Paquin. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/gp/ Last accessed 1/13/2003.

 

Bissonnette on Costume Geographic Search: Greece. http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/bonc/2geographicsearch/Greece/greece.html. The examples of costume from Chios (19th century?) are significantly different from what is portrayed in the 16th century. Last accessed 1/15/2003.

 

The Renaissance Tailor: Clothing Construction in the  “Period” Style. http://www.vertetsable.com/periodstyle.htm Last accessed 2/2003.