Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500

Patricia Blessing; Rachel Goshgarian

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Patricia Blessing, Society of Architectural Historians, Rachel Goshgarian, Lafayette College

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: January 2018
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781474411301

Subjects:: Art, Architecture

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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 region's 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.

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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations and Tables
pp vii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xi

Foreword
pp xii-xiii

Map
pp xiv-xviii

1 - Introduction – Space and Place: Applications to Medieval Anatolia
pp 1-24

Part I - Building: Masons and Infrastructure
pp 25-26

2 - Craftsmen in Medieval Anatolia: Methods and Mobility
pp 27-58

3 - Stones for Travellers: Notes on the Masonry of Seljuk Road Caravanserais
pp 59-92

Part II - Social Groups: Akhis and Futuwwa
pp 93-94

4 - Suggestions on the Social Meaning, Structure and Functions of Akhi Communities and their Hospices in Medieval Anatolia
pp 95-113

5 - Social Graces and Urban Spaces: Brotherhood and the Ambiguities of Masculinity and Religious Practice in Late Medieval Anatolia
pp 114-132

Part III - Exchange: Islamic and Christian Architecture
pp 133-134

6 - Transformation of the ‘Sacred’ Image of a Byzantine Cappadocian Settlement
pp 135-154

7 - The ‘Islamicness’ of Some Decorative Patterns in the Church of Tigran Honents in Ani
pp 155-182

Part IV - Frameworks: Language, Geography and Identity
pp 183-184

8 - Harvesting Garden Semantics in Late Medieval Anatolia
pp 185-199

9 - All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? The Contemporaries of Early Ottoman Architecture in Eastern Anatolia
pp 200-223

10 - The ‘Dual Identity’ of Mahperi Khatun: Piety, Patronage and Marriage across Frontiers in Seljuk Anatolia
pp 224-252

Notes on Contributors
pp 253-256

Bibliography
pp 257-286

Index
pp 287-293

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