1st Edition
Regulating Non-Muslim Communities in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire Catholics and Capitulations
Introduction Part 1: The evolution of religious issues in Ottoman capitulations 1. The first ones on the scene: French capitulations 2. The old acquaintances: Venetian capitulations 3. The bitter rivals: Habsburg capitulations 4. The latecomers: Polish-Lithuanian capitulations 5. The Protestant and Orthodox Cases Part 2: Pilgrims, clerics, and churches in the Ottoman capitulations 6. Catholic laymen 7. Priests, Monks and Missionaries 8. The status of churches 9.Conclusions
Biography
Radu Dipratu is a historian at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. His main research topics are Ottoman diplomatics and Catholics in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern age, on which he has written several articles such as ‘Visiting the Noble Jerusalem: Catholic Pilgrims in the Ottoman Capitulations of the Seventeenth Century’ (2018) and ‘The Valona Affair (1638), its Ensuing Anti-Piracy nişan and the Development of Ottoman-Venetian Peace Agreements’ (2020).
