Examines the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly focusing on the church's power in relation to the economic, social, and cultural history of the Ottoman state.

• Part I: Theoretical and Historical Background


• Introduction


• 1: The Millet System Revisited


• 2: ?stimâlet, Ottoman Methods of Conquest, and the Greek Orthodox Church


• Part II: The Patriarchal Tax Farm


• 3: The All-Holy Tax Farmer: The Istanbul Rum Patrigi as Mültezim


• 4: Ottoman Tax Farming and the Greek Orthodox Church


• Part III: Contested Power and Authority


• 5: Competition and Cooperation: Sultan, Patriarch, and Greek Elite


• 6: Looking Beyond the Sixteenth Century


• Glossary


• Bibliography

Tom Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgeian Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History, and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. A graduate of both Hellenic College (BA, 1988) and Holy Cross School of Theology (M. Divinity, 1992), Papademetriou received his Ph.D. in 2001 from Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies in Ottoman History. He was awarded research fellowships by the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Institute in Turkey to conduct research in the Ottoman Archives and the Archives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey. His research focuses on the history of non-Muslims under Ottoman rule, especially the relations of the Greek Orthodox Church and State in the early Ottoman centuries.