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Author:   Elizabeth Key Fowden ,  Suna Çağaptay ,  Edward Zychowicz-Coghill ,  Louise Blanke
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   1
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9781789257687

ISBN 10:   1789257689
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   15 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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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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