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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Buildings, landscapes, and societies ;
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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.