This text analyzes medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian, demonstrating how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans during the late Middle Ages. This examination of the rise of the Ottoman Empire - the longest-lived political entity in human history - shows the transformation of a tiny frontier enterprise into a centralized imperial state that saw itself as both leader of the world's Muslims and heir to the Eastern Roman Empire.
- ISBN10 0585041040
- ISBN13 9780585041049
- Publish Date December 1995 (first published 1 January 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Language English