"The industrial-style, routinized cruelty of the Ottoman Court, including towards the most important actors in it, is absolutely shocking."
Am currently reading The Siege by Ismail Kadare (Albanian nationalist novel playing in the 15h century told from the Turkish perspective). While it's fiction it seems pretty well researched and gives the same impression. Formalized, efficient and barbarian administration by the Ottomans.
"The industrial-style, routinized cruelty of the Ottoman Court, including towards the most important actors in it, is absolutely shocking."
Am currently reading The Siege by Ismail Kadare (Albanian nationalist novel playing in the 15h century told from the Turkish perspective). While it's fiction it seems pretty well researched and gives the same impression. Formalized, efficient and barbarian administration by the Ottomans.