The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836 2 Volume Set
The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836 2 Volume Set
£72.99
GBPJulia Pardoe (1804–62) was famous for her historical biographies (some of which are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), but this two-volume work, first published in 1837, arose from a visit to Turkey made by Pardoe and her father in 1836. It was very successful, with new editions appearing over the next twenty years, while Pardoe was considered to be second only to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu among female writers on Turkey. Attempting to give her readers 'a more just and complete insight into Turkish domestic life, than they have hitherto been enabled to obtain', in Volume 1 Pardoe describes the inhabitants of Istanbul, both the Ottoman governing elite and the expatriate community of Greeks, Italians, Russians and French, with their constant political intrigues. In Volume 2 she travels in western Turkey, visiting Bursa, the former Ottoman capital, before returning to Europe via the Danube.
Product details
March 2015Multiple copy pack
9781108074438
1074 pages
220 × 143 × 72 mm
1.2kg
7 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. The Golden Horn
- 2. Difficulty of ingress to Turkish houses
- 3. Turning dervishes
- 4. Merchants of Galata
- 5. The Greek carnival
- 6. Difficulty of obtaining an insight into Turkish character
- 7. The harem of Mustafa Effendi
- 8. Bath-room of Scodra Pasha
- 9. Cheerful cemeteries
- 10. Character of Constantinopolitan Greeks
- 11. The Kourban-Baïram
- 12. The military college
- 13. Invitation from Mustapha Pasha of Scodra
- 14. Procession of betrothal
- 15. Fine scenery
- 16. Turkish superstitions
- 17. Imperial invitations
- 18. Kahaitchana
- 19. Easter with the Greeks
- 20. Feasting after fasting
- 21. High street of Pera
- 22. The mosques at midnight
- 23. Antiquities of Constantinople
- 24. Balouclè
- 25. Figurative gratitude of the Seraskier Pasha
- 26. Repetition
- 27. Succession of banquets
- 28. Monotonous entertainments
- 29. The bridal day
- 30. A new rejoicing. Volume 2:
- 1. Departure for Broussa
- 2. Ancient gate
- 3. Orientalism of Broussa
- 4. Difficulty of access to the chapel of the howling dervishes
- 5. Loquacious barber
- 6. The Armenian quarter of Broussa
- 7. The cadi's wife
- 8. Tzèkerghè
- 9. Death in the revel
- 10. Yenekeui
- 11. A chapter on caïques
- 12. The Bosphorus in summer
- 13. Facts and fictions
- 14. Political position of the Turks
- 15. Death in a princely harem
- 16. Military festival
- 17. Turkish ladies 'at home'
- 18. The Reiss Effendi
- 19. Imperial gratitude
- 20. Turkish madhouses
- 21. The castle of Europe
- 22. The plague
- 23. A Greek marriage
- 24. The fez manufactory
- 25. Social conditions of the eastern Jews
- 26. Hospitality of the Armenians
- 27. Season-changes at Constantinople
- 28. The Bosporus in mist
- 29. The Danube
- 30. Hirsova
- 31. Orsova
- 32. The last day of captivity
- 33. Departure from Orsova
- 34. Carlowitz.
