Keeper of Secrets, Noble Highness: the Journey of the Mavrocordatos Family from a Borderland Perspective

Myrsini Manney-Kalogera

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Pages:: 70–91

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004704374_005

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Nicolas Mavrocordatos (1670–1730) was a prominent member of the Phanariot aristocracy, who served as Grand Dragoman of the Imperial Council and then Voyvoda of Moldavia and Wallachia. Using his life as a case study, this paper aims to investigate the Ottoman Empire’s approach to its European borderlands, explore the role of the Phanariots as a centrally appointed border elite, and cast light on the ways in which Nicolas and his family manipulated their identities to fill a variety of political roles. Building on a large body of scholarship on Ottoman dragomans and the Phanariots, this paper takes a closer look at Nicolas’ book Philotheou Parerga (The Leisures of Philotheos). It argues that during the eighteenth century, a novel political culture, the cultural extroversion of the Tulip Era, and newfound anxieties over the empire’s European borderlands transformed the Phanariots into border elites, a shift mirrored in Nicolas’ political career.

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Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

Essays in Honor of Linda Darling

Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 80

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Print Publication Date:: 17 Sep 2024

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