[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: February 16, 2016

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Tue Feb 9 06:22:53 PST 2016




PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Lecture


Render unto the Sultan:
Toward a History of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire


Tom Papademetriou

Stockton University
Writing the history of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire requires coming to terms with the larger Ottoman context. Render Unto the Sultan observes the Church within an Ottoman economic context, and argues that the Ottoman state considered Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical hierarchs to be tax farmers (mültezim) for cash income derived from the Church's widespread holdings.  As a result, it challenges the long-established concept of the Ottoman "millet system," and shows that rather than being isolated or separated from the dominant Muslim society, Greek Orthodox individuals making up the church reflect the society in which they exist.



Tom Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgiean Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History, and Director of the Dean C. and Zoe S. Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at Stockton University. Among the first to be supported by both the Program in Hellenic Studies and Near Eastern Studies, Papademetriou received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton, 2001).  His dissertation focused on the relations of the Greek Orthodox Church and state in the early Ottoman centuries, which is the subject of his book, Render Unto the Sultan (Oxford University Press, 2015).



Tuesday, February 16, 2016

6:00 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103





Supported by the Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund



Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies

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