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Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism

Key Fowden, Elizabeth Çağaptay, Suna Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward Se alle
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781789257687
Publisert
2022-01-15
Utgiver
Oxbow Books
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
432

Redaktør
Key Fowden, Elizabeth
Çağaptay, Suna
Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward
Blanke, Louise

Biografisk notat

Elizabeth Key Fowden is Senior Researcher on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Hellenism and Islam in the Hellenic sphere from late antique Syria to Ottoman Greece, drawing together architectural, visual and textual sources to analyse cultural exchange. Suna Çağaptay is a medievalist working on the artistic and cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean and their reflections in the built environment. She is a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. She also teaches at Bahçeşehir University (BAU), Istanbul. Edward Zychowicz-Coghill was a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project and is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a cultural historian of the early Islamic world whose work encompasses historiography, conceptions of the city, and ideas about wealth and inequality. Louise Blanke is Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and previously a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. She directs the ongoing Late Antique Jerash Project.

Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism

Key Fowden, Elizabeth Çağaptay, Suna Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward Se alle
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk
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The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodisation and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons.   Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterised by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travellers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents.
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Explores the historical complexity and cultural hybridity of post-classical eastern Mediterranean cities with case studies examining how cities’ pasts have lived on in their presents.
Series Preface Acknowledgments Illustrations Contributors   Introduction 1. Historical distance, physical presence and the living past of cities Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke   Accumulation and juxtaposition 2. Between wars and peace: Some archaeological and historiographical aspects to studying urban transformations in Jerusalem Gideon Avni 3. Visualizing Constantinople as a palimpsest Robert Ousterhout 4. Transcultural encounters in medieval Anatolia: The Sungur Ağa Mosque in Niğde Suna Çağaptay 5. The water of life, the vanity of mortal existence and a penalty of 2,500 denarii: Thoughts on the reuse of classical and Byzantine remains in Seljuk cities Scott Redford 6. Echoes of late antique Esbus in Mamluk Ḥisbān (Jordan) Bethany J. Walker   Erasure and selective memory 7. Constantinople’s medieval antiquarians of the future Benjamin Anderson 8. William of Tyre and the cities of the Levant Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 9. Portraits of Ottoman Athens from Martin Crusius to Strategos Makriyannis Elizabeth Key Fowden 10. Perceptions, histories and urban realities of Thessaloniki’s layered past Nikolas Bakirtzis   The new and the old 11. From Byzantion to Constantinople Paul Magdalino 12. Looking in two directions: Urban (re)building in sixth-century Asia Minor Ine Jacobs 13. Byzantine urban imagination: Idealisation and political thinking (eighth to fifteenth centuries) Helen Saradi 14. Ottoman urbanism and capital cities before the conquest of Constantinople (1453) Dimitri J. Kastritsis 15. New history for old Istanbul: Late Ottoman encounters with Constantinople in the urban landscape Göksun Akyürek         Whose past? 16. Medieval Arabic archaeologies of the ancient cities of Syria Edward Zychowicz-Coghill 17. (Re)constructing Jarash: History, historiography and the making of the ancient city Louise Blanke 18. Constantinople in the sixteenth-century Maghribī imaginary: The travelogue of ʿAlī al-Tamgrūtī Amira K. Bennison 19. Beirut as a palimpsest: Conflicting present pasts, materiality and interpretation Assaad Seif
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First of a multi-disciplinary series which reassesses the importance of the city of the Greek and Roman world on the development of subsequent urbanism

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The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodisation and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons.   Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterised by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travellers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents.
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Explores the historical complexity and cultural hybridity of post-classical eastern Mediterranean cities with case studies examining how cities’ pasts have lived on in their presents.
Series Preface Acknowledgments Illustrations Contributors   Introduction 1. Historical distance, physical presence and the living past of cities Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke   Accumulation and juxtaposition 2. Between wars and peace: Some archaeological and historiographical aspects to studying urban transformations in Jerusalem Gideon Avni 3. Visualizing Constantinople as a palimpsest Robert Ousterhout 4. Transcultural encounters in medieval Anatolia: The Sungur Ağa Mosque in Niğde Suna Çağaptay 5. The water of life, the vanity of mortal existence and a penalty of 2,500 denarii: Thoughts on the reuse of classical and Byzantine remains in Seljuk cities Scott Redford 6. Echoes of late antique Esbus in Mamluk Ḥisbān (Jordan) Bethany J. Walker   Erasure and selective memory 7. Constantinople’s medieval antiquarians of the future Benjamin Anderson 8. William of Tyre and the cities of the Levant Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 9. Portraits of Ottoman Athens from Martin Crusius to Strategos Makriyannis Elizabeth Key Fowden 10. Perceptions, histories and urban realities of Thessaloniki’s layered past Nikolas Bakirtzis   The new and the old 11. From Byzantion to Constantinople Paul Magdalino 12. Looking in two directions: Urban (re)building in sixth-century Asia Minor Ine Jacobs 13. Byzantine urban imagination: Idealisation and political thinking (eighth to fifteenth centuries) Helen Saradi 14. Ottoman urbanism and capital cities before the conquest of Constantinople (1453) Dimitri J. Kastritsis 15. New history for old Istanbul: Late Ottoman encounters with Constantinople in the urban landscape Göksun Akyürek         Whose past? 16. Medieval Arabic archaeologies of the ancient cities of Syria Edward Zychowicz-Coghill 17. (Re)constructing Jarash: History, historiography and the making of the ancient city Louise Blanke 18. Constantinople in the sixteenth-century Maghribī imaginary: The travelogue of ʿAlī al-Tamgrūtī Amira K. Bennison 19. Beirut as a palimpsest: Conflicting present pasts, materiality and interpretation Assaad Seif
Les mer
First of a multi-disciplinary series which reassesses the importance of the city of the Greek and Roman world on the development of subsequent urbanism

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781789257687
Publisert
2022-01-15
Utgiver
Oxbow Books
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
432

Redaktør
Key Fowden, Elizabeth
Çağaptay, Suna
Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward
Blanke, Louise

Biografisk notat

Elizabeth Key Fowden is Senior Researcher on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Hellenism and Islam in the Hellenic sphere from late antique Syria to Ottoman Greece, drawing together architectural, visual and textual sources to analyse cultural exchange. Suna Çağaptay is a medievalist working on the artistic and cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean and their reflections in the built environment. She is a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. She also teaches at Bahçeşehir University (BAU), Istanbul. Edward Zychowicz-Coghill was a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project and is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a cultural historian of the early Islamic world whose work encompasses historiography, conceptions of the city, and ideas about wealth and inequality. Louise Blanke is Lecturer in Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and previously a research associate on the Impact of the Ancient City project at the University of Cambridge. She directs the ongoing Late Antique Jerash Project.

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