Dechiffrer le passe d'un empire: Hommage a Nicolas Vatin et aux humanites ottomanes

Nicolas Vatin est l'auteur d'une oeuvre importante sur l'histoire de l'Empire ottoman, tout particulierement aux XVe-XVIe siecles. Au lendemain de son entree a l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 34 de ses amis et collegues travaillant dans neuf pays differents ont souhaite lui rendre hommage. Leurs travaux, en francais et en anglais (un texte est en allemand), ont ete reunis par Elisabetta Borromeo, Frederic Hitzel et Benjamin Lellouch. Organises en huit parties thematiques, ils reprennent les nombreux domaines d'etude de Nicolas Vatin: l'historiographie ottomane, la conquete ottomane, les relations diplomatiques entre Orient et Occident, les elites ottomanes, l'identite ottomane, la piraterie en Mediterranee, l'epigraphie funeraire…

Nicolas Vatin is the author of a major work on the history of the Ottoman Empire, especially during the 15th and 16th centuries. Following his nomination to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, thirty-four of his friends and colleagues from nine different countries wished to pay tribute to him. Their contributions, written in French and English (and one in German), are edited by Elisabetta Borromeo, Frederic Hitzel, and Benjamin Lellouch. Organized around eight themes, they touch on Nicolas Vatin’s numerous areas of study: Ottoman historiography, the Ottoman conquest, diplomatic relations between East and West, the Ottoman elites, Ottoman identity, piracy in the Mediterranean, funerary epigraphy…