Constantinopolis/Istanbul : cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital
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Constantinopolis/Istanbul : cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009
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Note
Bibliography: p. 266-282
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A symbolic locus embodying myriad meanings, the political center of the eastern Mediterranean, and one of the old world’s largest urban centers, Constantinople was the site of large-scale urban and architectural interventions. Changing visions—the changing political, cultural, and religious orientations of those who lived there and those who ruled from there—inscribed themselves in its spaces, transforming it and lending it new meanings. Constantinopolis/Istanbul is about such a period of change and remaking: following its capture in 1453, the city was host to a grandly conceived urban project meant to rebuild and transform the capital of Eastern Rome as the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu traces the construction and representation of Ottoman Istanbul, threading histories of politics, culture, and architecture into the fabric of the urban landscape. Attentive to the preservation and destruction of artifacts from the past, Constantinopolis/Istanbul shapes an understanding of emerging modes of spatiality and visuality in Ottoman Istanbul as central components of a complex and fascinating urban process, that of the creation of a capital city through the interpretation and appropriation of another.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: The City’s First Ottoman Years
2. Constructing the City: The Architectural Projects
Part 1: The Urban Program and Mehmed’s Foundation
Part 2: The Patronage of the New Ruling Elite
Part 3: Memory, Space, and Vision in Constructions of the Ottoman Capital City
3. Representing the City: Constantinople and Its Images
4. Istanbul Inhabited
Epilogue: A Picture from Circa 1537
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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