Architecture and landscape in medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758344
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Other authors / contributors:Blessing, Patricia, editor.
Goshgarian, Rachel, editor.
ISBN:9781474411301
1474411304
9781474411318
1474411312
1474411290
9781474411295
1474411312
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 20, 2018).
Summary:Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the regioń⁰₉s multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.
Other form:Print version: Architecture and landscape in medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 1474411290