Order and Disorder of Communication
The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints'' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal arguments. These pamphlets were more than simply a novel way to disseminate texts, th...
The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints'' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal arguments. These pamphlets were more than simply a novel way to disseminate texts, th...
