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Constantinopolis/Istanbul:

Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital
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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.


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


“There is much to recommend in Ciğdem Kafescioğlu’s carefully researched and elegant book, not the least of which is a thorough analysis of the transformation of Byzantine Constantinople into Ottoman Istanbul.”

—Andrea Bubenik, Parergon

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