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Queen's Apprentice
This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.
Herzog History and Related Families, 1649-1999
Johann Heinrich Christoph Herzog was born 1 December 1815 in Schonbrunn, Reuss, Germany. His parents were Johann Georg Herzog and Elizabeth Krauss. He married Christina Wolf in 1839. They and their four sons immigrated to America in 1849 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Descendants and relatives lived in Milwaukee, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere.
Philosophy in the Islamic World
Philosophy in the Islamic World is a comprehensive and unprecedented four-volume reference work devoted to the history of philosophy in the realms of Islam, from its beginnings in the eighth century AD down to modern times. The focus of this fourth installment of the series, divided into two volumes, is the 19th and 20th centuries and geographically on the Arab countries, the Ottoman-Turkish region, Iran, and Muslim South Asia. During this time philosophy was pursued at Islamic institutions and increasingly in Western-style universities, but philosophy also had an impact beyond academia. In each chapter, an international expert on philosophy in this period explores the teachings of individua...
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918
This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects. The conventional wisdom was that the Arabs were a subject people who resented or, at best, were indifferent to their Ottoman overlords. This book argues that two social classes - Sunni religious scholars and urban notables - were willing collaborators in the imperial enterprise, and without whose support the Ottoman Empire would not have ruled the Arab lands for as long as they did.
The City in the Ottoman Empire
The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of conviviality and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the legal, administrative and political frameworks within which these occur. Focusing on groups of migrants with various ethnic, regional and professional backgrounds, the book juxtaposes the trajectories of these people with attempts by local administrations and the government to control their movements and settlements. By combining a perspective ...
The Cardinal of Lorraine and the Council of Trent
This 1930 volume maintains that the first two and a half years of the pontificate of Pius IV, during which the continuation of the Council of Trent was secured against strong French and German opposition, constituted the critical period which finally determined the ultimate orientation of the Counter-Reformation.
Ottoman Nizamiye Courts
A fresh look at one of the most important landmarks in the passage of the Ottoman Middle East to modernity during the late nineteenth century, this book explores the Nizamiye court system. The author offers an innovative conceptualization to serve as an alternative to common - yet poorly grounded - wisdoms about legal change in the modern Middle East. Employing a socio-legal approach, this study is focused on "law in action," as experienced in and outside the Nizamiye courts of law.
