Loyalty, Belonging and Dependency in Early Modern Ottoman Empire

This bilingual workshop aims at approaching concepts of dependency, loyalty, and belonging in early modern Ottoman society. We will focus not only on slave-slave owner relationships, but also on patronage, servitude, dependency on religion or on places of belonging, and more. By analyzing the lives and stories of individuals or social groups in the private and public spheres, we hope to draw some conclusions about strong asymmetrical dependencies as they developed in early modern Ottoman society.