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Andronikos on the emperor's godlessness, which had caused great unrest in the church and had provoked the anger of God. 296 You kept to the doctrine of Palamas and gave him total freedom to unseat unrightfully and without any grounded reason a number of the Bishops and to rob them of all power in order to replace them with others, from whom he had requested and obtained a written confession of their godlessness. Therefore, I have warned you as a friend and asserted times and again that you would not escape from the wrath of God, but that you would experience suffering by way of the dearest you possess, that is punishment with the loss of one of your children. It is not extraordinary that I was able to foretell the events to come from what had happened, because I knew the magnitude of your godlessness. In a short time, my prophesy became fulfilled and your youngest son died after a short period of illness. Gregoras represented the disease as an instrument with which God could afflict punishment for heresy, but the Hesychast movement which he so virulently opposed must have offered spiritual comfort to the terrified population . "Hesychast means 'he who lives quiet' and it was the name given to the men whose goal was unity with God and who chose as the only way to its attainment complete seclusion from the world... Not only is the Hesychast entirely cut off from outward impressions, but he ... loses consciousness of himself, being wholly absorbed in the contemplation of God." 297 . That a seclusive lifestyle also offered protection against plague is obvious and when Hesychasts survived where others perished might have contributed to the success of the movement. Hesychasm became the dominant doctrine and received support from the emperors. Interestingly, the abbé Boileau 298 interprets the writings of Nicephorus Gregoras as referring to the Flagellants whose activities had spread into the Byzantine Empire. The ephemerous movement of the Flagellants came into being 296 The letter of Gregoras, Rhomaische Geschichte = Historia Rhomaike, 71, will be discussed in more detail in the chapter "Plague and the ruled" 297 Vasiliev. A History of the Byzantine Empire. 324-1453. 1952, 666-667. 298 abbé Boileau. Histoire des flagellants, 259. op. cit in Biraben Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. vol. I, 70. 77
in Europe as a response to the epidemic. Devotion, penitence in the form of flagellation and occasional violence against presumed instigators of the epidemic, such as lepers or Jewish citizens were the main characteristics of this hysterical reaction to the calamity of the Black Death. Before those excesses took upperhand, the movement had been well-disciplined. Abstinence from all wordly comfort as well as total obedience to the Master were required and their leaders took pride in being independent from any ecclesiastical institution. Unlike the Hesychasts, the Flagellant movement would not be endorsed by the authorities, who saw them as a source of local unrest and acted against them. 299 Whether in mainstream religion or otherwise, one religious response was to pray to God directly or to request his favour through the intervention of a saint. The Byzantine patriarch could compose new prayers to this end. At the start of his patriarchate around the year 1380, the Greek patriarch Nil wrote a prayer to end the invasion of the barbarians, the civil war, the famine and the plague. 300 As in Europe, where saints such as the Virgin Mary, St Sebastian and St Roch were worshipped for their healing qualities in times of plague, certain Orthodox saints were specially venerated. Their churches and relics were visited and the faithful were anointed with oils emanating from their preserved bodies. The cult of a "plague saint" started after he had performed certain miracles relating to the healing of the disease. The cult of the Virgin Mary was well-established in Constantinople and even before the days of the Emperor Maurice 301 (582-602) who was recorded to have attended them in person, great processions were held in 299 Ziegler, The Black Death, 87-98. 300 This list of supplications, quoted from regestes des actes du patriarcat de Constantinople, Vol I, 19, also shows that although plague was indeed a matter of preoccupation, it only came last on a well-supplied list of scourges. 301 A plague outbreak visited Constantinople during his reign in 599, according to Stathakopoulos, Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics, 119. 78
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ÖZET KARA ÖLÜM VE ERKEN OSMANLIL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........
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subject is evident, plague has been
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also consulted. In view of this cla
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CHAPTER II A BIOLOGICAL AND HISTORI
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continents. 15 However, because of
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not. 22 Wendy Orent postulates that
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the disease. 31 During this outbrea
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common during winter, whereas the b
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CHAPTER III HISTORICAL SOURCES AND
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which will be critically examined i
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contested by Zeynep Korkmaz on the
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Ahmedi's Gazavâtname. 64 He lived
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The tarih was written as a way to p
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Page 43 and 44: period of one or more seasons, name
Page 45 and 46: Bir hastalık ki halk arasında sar
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Page 59 and 60: Crete. 209 That the Brachea Chronik
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APPENDIX I ENTRIES FROM THE DIARY O
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Da Sybinicho, fo leto una lettera,
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morto do fioli da peste, pur Idio l
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61. vol. 28, col. 232 Da Constantin
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incolorò, dove la saltò la peste,
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E venuto nova il magnifico Perì Ba
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Idem, by two slaves who escaped fro
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MDX, APRILE (April 1510) 27. vol. 1
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There is an enormous plague outbrea
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... that there, in Constantinople,
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a carbuncle, which is a sort of gia
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