A Strange Affliction from Abroad: The Ottoman Chief Imperial Physician Ḥayātīzāde’s Treatise on the Polish Plait (Plica Polonica)

Sara Nur Yıldız
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Plica polonica was an early modern disease construct affecting the scalp and hair. Initially associated with Polish populations, the affliction spread throughout southern Europe, as the Ottoman chief imperial physician Ḥayātīzāde’s (d. 1103/1691) treatise on plica polonica indicates. Through a close reading of Ḥayātīzāde’s treatise, this paper explores how the Ottomans responded to a changing disease landscape shaped by the movement of people through warfare and enslavement. It argues that textual medical knowledge circulating in the Mediterranean region was modified according to local sociopolitical and cultural concerns. Ḥayātīzāde recast new Latin medical knowledge not just linguistically but also culturally to fit an Ottoman courtly context. The Ottoman court served as a locus not only for the dissemination of new medical knowledge; it was also a permeable contact zone populated by physicians and translators associated with trans-Danubian political elites. Ḥayātīzāde’s treatise was the product of entangled Ottoman Turkish and Latin learning and knowledge practices shaped in a world of transimperial agents.
来自国外的一种奇怪的痛苦:奥斯曼帝国首席御医Ḥayātīzāde关于波兰辫子的论述(Plica Polonica)
皱褶是一种影响头皮和头发的早期现代疾病。正如奥斯曼帝国首席御医Ḥayātīzāde(公元1103/1691年)关于波兰病的论文所指出的那样,这种疾病最初与波兰人有关,后来蔓延到整个南欧。通过仔细阅读Ḥayātīzāde的论文,本文探讨了奥斯曼人如何应对不断变化的疾病景观,这些疾病景观是由人们通过战争和奴役的运动形成的。它认为,在地中海地区流传的文本医学知识根据当地的社会政治和文化问题进行了修改。Ḥayātīzāde不仅在语言上,而且在文化上重塑新的拉丁医学知识,以适应奥斯曼宫廷的背景。奥斯曼宫廷不仅是传播新医学知识的场所;它也是一个可渗透的接触区,由与多瑙河对岸的政治精英有关的医生和翻译人员组成。Ḥayātīzāde的论文是纠缠在一起的奥斯曼土耳其和拉丁学习和知识实践的产物,形成了一个跨帝国的代理人的世界。
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