Janissaries: The Ottoman Soldiers Recruited From Enslaved Christian Boys
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We want to entertain people with history which is entertaining, visually pleasing and grounded in scholarship at the same time. Our golden rules: 1) We only use academic sources and always try to stick to the consensus opinion. 2) We always list our sources in description of our videos. 3) We make clear when we deviate from the prior two rules. Education: Between the two of us we hold two Master's degrees in history from the university of Bern and one degree as a history teacher from the Bern University of Teacher Education. Both of us worked at the University of Bern as teaching assistants. We wrote an article about our experience as content creators (ed. by Dr. Kilian Baur and Robert Trautmannsberger): https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110792898-005/html We also held a few talks about our journey on YouTube at the universities of Eichstätt, Fribourg and Zürich. We taught a seminar about history on YouTube at the University of Zurich in spring of 2024.
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In this video, we explore how the Janissaries became the Sultan’s elite, why they were recruited from enslaved Christians, how they fought, and why they were different from western pike and shot armies. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Paypal (thank you: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Some must read mlitary history books: Ambrose, S. E., Band of Brothers: E Company, 2001. https://amzn.to/438ltvZ Baime, A. J., The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman, 2017. https://amzn.to/3TcDGUj Beard, M., Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, 2023. https://amzn.to/49L2olR Bevoor, A., Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943, 1999. https://amzn.to/4a4rqwe Beevor, A., The Second World War, 2013. https://amzn.to/3wNFITu Brennan, P+D., Gettysburg in Color, 2022. https://amzn.to/48LGldG Clausewitz, C., On War, 2010. https://amzn.to/3Vblf5 Kaushik, R., A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare: 10,000 BCE–1500 CE, 2021. https://amzn.to/49Mtqt7 McPherson, J., Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era, 2021. https://amzn.to/3TseYAW Tsu, S., The Art of War, 2007, https://amzn.to/3TuknHA Sledge. E. B., With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, 2008. https://amzn.to/439olIK Pomerantsev, P., How to Win an Information War, 2024. https://amzn.to/3Ts0YqQ Video sources: Agoston, Gabor, Firearms and Military Adaptation: The Ottomans and the European Military Revolution, 1450-1800, in: Journal of World History (2014), pp. 85-124. Aksan, Virginia H., s.v. Janissaries, in: Holmes, Singleton, Jones (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Military History, Oxford 2001. Finkel, C., Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, 2007. https://amzn.to/3Pg5V3l Nicole, D., The Janissaries, 1995, https://amzn.to/4ckaJ1M Goodwin, Godfrey, The Janissaries, London, 1997. https://amzn.to/3Tu04tS Hechelhammer, Bodo, The Corps of Janissaries. Eine militärische Elite im Spannungsfeld von Gesellschaft, Militär und Obrigkeit im Osmanischen Reich, in: Militär und Gesellschaft in der frühen Neuzeit 14 (2010), p. 33-58. Huart, C., s.v. Janissaries, in: Encyclopedia of Islam, Leiden, 1987. Stiles, Andrina, The Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700, London, 1989. Veinstein, Gilles, On the Ottoman janissaries, in: Zürcher, Erik-Jan, Fighting for a Living. A Comparative Study of Military Labor 1500-2000, Amsterdam 2013, pp. 115-134. #history #documentary #education
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