Nicolas Vatin is a French epigrapher and historian, specializing in the study of the Ottoman Empire. His brother, , is a professor of sociology at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défenser.

Career

After studying at the École normale supérieure, Vatin obtained his

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in 1978. Between 1981 and 1983, Vatin was a resident at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul. As of 2016, Vatin is the director of research at the

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and director of studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études.. Vatin's main research topics are the Ottoman Empire during the 15th-16th centuries, the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, the succession of Ottoman sultans and cemeteries and death with translations and analysis of the Ottoman chronicles.

Bibliography

In 2015, he published a ''Dictionnaire de l'empire Ottoman XVe-XVIes'' with

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and

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Works

*''L'ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, l'Empire ottoman et la Méditerranée orientale entre les deux sièges de Rhodes (1480-1522)'', Louvain-Paris, Peeters, 1994, 571 p. (traduction turque parue aux éditions Tarih Vakfi, Istanbul, 2004) *''Sultan Djem. Un prince ottoman dans l'Europe du XVe d'après deux sources contemporaines : Vâkı'ât-ı Sultân Cem'', œuvres de

Guillaume Caoursin Guillaume Caoursin, also called Gulielmus Caoursin (1430, Douai – 1501, Rhodes), was vice-chancellor of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, or Knights Hospitaller. He was an eye-witness to the siege of Rhodes in 1480, an unsuccessful attack o ...

, Ankara, Société Turque d'Histoire, 1997, 379 p. *''Rhodes et l'ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem'', Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2000, 119 p. *avec Stéphane Yerasimos : ''Les cimetières dans la ville. Statuts, choix et organisation des lieux d'inhumation dans Istanbul intra-muros'', Paris-Istanbul, Institut Français d'´Études Anatoliennes - Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient (Maisonneuve), 2001, 270 p. *''Les Ottomans et l'occident XVe-XVIes)'', Istanbul, Isis, 2001, 196 p. (recueil d'articles) *with Gilles Veinstein : ''Le Sérail ébranlé. Essai sur les morts, dépositions et avènements des sultans ottomans. XIVe-XIXes'', Paris, Fayard, 2003, 523 p. *with Gilles Veinstein : ''Insularités ottomanes'', Paris, Institut français d'études anatoliennes et Maisonneuve & Larose, 2004, 310 p. (publication des actes d'un colloque) *with Edhem Eldem : ''L’épitaphe ottomane musulmane. Contribution à une histoire de la culture ottomane'', Paris-Louvain, Peeters, 2007, X + 377 p. *''Ferîdûn Bey. Les plaisants secrets de la campagne de Szigetvar''. Édition, traduction et commentaire desfolios 1 à 147 du Nüzhetü-l-esrâr-il-ahbâr der sefer-i Sigetvâr(ms. H 1339 de la Bibliothèque du Musée de Topkapi Sarayi, Vienne-Munster, LIT Verlag, 2010, 542 p. *with Gilles Veinsein et Elizabeth Zachariadou, ''Catalogue du fonds ottoman des archives du Monastère de Saint-Jean à Patmos''. ''Les vingt-deux premiers dossiers'', Athènes, Fondation Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d’Études Byzantines, 2011, 973 p. *under the direction of Nicolas Vatin and Vincent Déroche, ''Constantinople 1453. Des Byzantins aux Ottomans'', Anacharsis, 2016, 1405 pages

References

External links

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on the site of the

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on the site of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
''Constantinople 1453 et l'Église''
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on Institut français d'études anatoliennes
''Les janissaires, fer de lance de la conquête ottomane''
on Clio Bibliothèque
''Rhodes et l’ordre de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem''
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