Constantinopolis/Istanbul : cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital /

"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 pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
Series:Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: the city's first Ottoman years
  • Constructing the city: architecture and its audiences
  • The urban program and Mehmed II's foundation
  • The patronage of the new ruling elite
  • Memory, space, and vision in constructions of the Ottoman capital city
  • Representing the city: Constantinople and its images
  • Istanbul inhabited
  • Epilogue: a picture from circa 1537.