The purpose of this study is to analyze the reformatory program of the last King of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The study focuses on implementing the reforms geared for transforming the existed regime. Therefore, ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the legal codes for clothing that were imposed on non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire between 16th and 17th centuries. Revolving around several questions, the thesis analyses the ...

The thesis is mainly built up of two parts. In both parts texts and data taken from Garcia de Silva y Figueroa s travel book will be used. Initially, how the ceremony of the banquet was performed and realized will be ...

The goal of this thesis is to examine the states of madness, melancholy and demonic possession in Europe from antiquity to the modern period. The study is composed of eleven main chapters. The first chapter discusses the ...

The narratives of creation respond to the existential questions of the members of the society by addressing the issues such as how life came about, what it is, where it is revealed, what is being male and female, how they ...

Since the time of the Crusaders and invading the Americas, European political thinkers hadbeen in a heavy effort for finding a way of conciliation among the ideas on justice and naturallaw in one hand, and European dominations ...

Just as every society that is within Islamic culture and civilization, Prophet Muhammed's miracle named 'miraj' is an important date for Turkish society as well. The night of miraj has been accepted as the date of inception ...

The aim of present dissertation is to develop new concepts for the study of the relation between urban space and public sphere in Istanbul during XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries. To this end, we intended to benefit from the ...

Eyüp Durukan, who served as Lieutenant Colonel in Artillery Division during the period ofTurkish National Struggle, wrote his diaries to the very day and also wrote his memoirs aboutthis period two decades later. In this ...

The thesis is mainly built up of three parts. Initially, the break out of Dutch Revolt, the main strategy of Spain toward the rebellion and the term until 1609- the sign of Twelve Years Truce- shall be examined. At this ...