Transottoman Matters : Objects Moving Through Time, Space, and Meaning

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility--as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation--involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.

Arkadiusz Blaszczyk is a historian specializing on the history of the northern Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period and works as a scientific assistant at the University of Gießen.

Robert Born ist Kunsthistoriker und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa.

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Fuess lehrt seit 2010 Islamwissenschaft am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien der Universität Marburg.

Anthony T. Quickel is a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Dr Florian Riedler is a historian with a focus on the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. He was the scientific coordinator of the priority program Transottomanica at the University of Leipzig. .