Elite of Converts - Oxford Scholarship by Unknown

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Tags: Early modern Christian-European commentators frequently noted the numerical prominence of converts in the Ottoman military-administrative elite. In doing so, these writers commonly used the blanket term renegade to refer to the fact that the members of this elite had been drawn from Christian communities, particularly in the Ottoman-ruled Balkans. Before examining the structure and history of the Ottoman elite and the transformations which it underwent in the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s consolidation during the sixteenth century, this chapter explores the term renegade, its history, and its relation to other contemporary categories such as Turk, Rumi, and Ottoman. The chapter thus provides the historical background against which the following chapters develop their arguments.


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