Town and Country on the Middle Danube, 1526-1690 / / Nenad Moacanin.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 35
• VerfasserIn: Moacanin, Nenad,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "About one half of the present text is the English edition of. Slavonia and Srijem in the period of Ottoman rule (Slavonija i Srijem u razdoblju osmanske vladavine.)"--Pref.

The present volume deals with the period of Ottoman rule in the land between the rivers Sava, Drava and Danube. In the first part, factors of stability and change in the structures of social and economic life in villages and towns are discussed with particular emphasis on the development of new, or improved devices of analysis and methods of interpreting. To establish a link between tax registers and the picture of the past life, this part closes with the commentary of three stories from narrative sources of that period. In the second part an attempt is made to check the applicability of the results of the investigation of issues of taxation and demography on the local level to the wider areas of Ottoman Empire.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Notes on toponymy -- Maps -- PART ONE -- Introduction -- Hungary in the fifteenth century -- Late Medieval Slavonia -- Chapter One: The village -- The first wave of settlement: Central Slavonia -- The first wave of settlement: Eastern Slavonia and western Srijem -- The first wave of settlement: Eastern Srijem -- Incomplete success in recolonization -- The size of the units of taxation -- Agricultural production -- The agriculture of suburbs -- Chapter Two: The town -- Chapter Three: Soldier and Subject -- Chapter Four: The Far West -- Chapter Five: Personal Experiences -- An extraordinary askeri career -- A turcophile Jesuit -- Historia phantastica -- PART TWO -- Chapter Six: Why cliometrics? -- The household divisor/multiplier -- Metrology -- Methods of calculating the volume of agricultural production by conversion into economic wheat equivalent -- Chapter Seven: Taxation and Demography -- Just one tax? -- Urban and rural 'houses' -- The historical demographer's view -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Sources, literature, abbreviations -- Glossary -- Index.