Constantinopolis Istanbul

Author : Çi_dem Kafescio_lu
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271027762
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantinopolis/Istanbul written by Çi_dem Kafescio_lu and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848546475
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantinople written by Philip Mansel and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the centre of the dramatic and often depraved story of an extraordinary dynasty.

Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498183
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople written by Sarah Bassett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.

Author : Edmondo De Amicis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantinople written by Edmondo De Amicis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Angold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317880528
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans written by Michael Angold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of Constantinople created a void. How that void was to be filled is the subject of this book. Michael Angold examines the context of late Byzantine civilisation and the cultural negotiation which allowed the city of Constantinople to survive for so long in the face of Ottoman power. He shows how the devastating impact of its fall lay at the centre of a series of interlocking historical patterns which marked this time of decisive change for the late medieval world. This concise and original study will be essential reading for students and scholars of Byzantine and late medieval history, as well as anyone with an interest in this significant turning point in world history.

Author : Nick Petrov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666921750
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert College of Constantinople written by Nick Petrov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert College of Constantinople is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside the borders of the United States. The history of the College includes 160 years of originality, innovations and astonishing development that impacted the history of Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, the Ottoman Empire and the United States of America.

Author : Nina Macaraig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474434126
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul written by Nina Macaraig and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. Continuously shaped by social and historical change, the life story of Mimar Sinan's Cemberlitas HamamA in Istanbul provides an important example: established in 1583/4, it was modernized during the Turkish Republic (since 1923) and is now a tourist attraction. As a social space shared by tourists and Turks, it is a critical site through which to investigate how global tourism affects local traditions and how places provide a nucleus of cultural belonging in a globalized world. This original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.

Author : Angus O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789756959749
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impressions of Istanbul written by Angus O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pinar Aykaç
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793641692
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula written by Pinar Aykaç and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the museum concept has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself through musealization. Articulating the musealization of historic cities as a specific urban process, the book here presents a study of the transformation of the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul’s historic peninsula, which has been the major focus of planning, conservation and museological studies in Turkey since the 19th century as the public face of the city. The author aims to offer empirically grounded and context-specific insight into the role of museums in the regeneration of historic cities. Musealization as an urban process varies in different geographical, cultural and ideological contexts, and across different time periods. By discussing the Sultanahmet district as a specific context of yet another city subjected to the musealization process, this book provides further insights into this important global phenomenon.

Author : Elena N. Boeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108187064
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople written by Elena N. Boeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international acclaim. Because all traces of Justinian's column were erased from the urban fabric of Istanbul in the sixteenth century, scholars have undervalued its astonishing agency and remarkable longevity. Its impact in visual and verbal culture was arguably among the most extensive of any Mediterranean monument. This book analyzes Byzantine, Islamic, Slavic, Crusader, and Renaissance historical accounts, medieval pilgrimages, geographic, apocalyptic and apocryphal narratives, vernacular poetry, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Italian, French, Latin, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, Florentine wedding chests, Venetian paintings, and Russian icons to provide an engrossing and pioneering biography of a contested medieval monument during the millennium of its life.