Michał WASIUCIONEK

Academic Year:
2022/2023

Field of Study:
History

Research Program:
N+N

Affiliation:
Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest

Position:
Research Assistant

Country:
Poland

Research project: Reading Sultan's Word at the Fringe of Empire: Reception and Mechanics of Reading Fermans in the Early Modern Ottoman Periphery

The project envisions a detailed study of the patterns of Ottoman pragmatic literacy on the early modern periphery of the empire – Moldavia and Wallachia. It seeks to investigate how a largely illiterate audience with little knowledge of Ottoman Turkish accessed imperial writs by reconstructing the social and physical space of such interactions, arguing that rather than reading, the documents constituted part of a broader audio-visual communication process.

A full-length study is available here.