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Leslie Peirce

    Leslie P. Peirce ist eine Historikerin, die sich mit der frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches beschäftigt, mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf Geschlecht, Recht und Gesellschaft. Ihre Forschung zeichnet sich durch tiefes Eintauchen in die sozialen Strukturen und Rechtssysteme der Epoche aus. Peirce erforscht die Feinheiten des täglichen Lebens und der Machtdynamiken durch sorgfältige Analyse historischer Quellen. Ihr Ansatz bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Entstehung der Gesellschaft und die Stellung der Frau in der frühneuzeitlichen osmanischen Welt.

    Empress of the East
    The Imperial Harem. Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
    • Empress of the East

      • 384 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

      Empress of the East2020
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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 sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broadersociety's control for social control of the sexually active.

      The Imperial Harem. Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire1993
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