Download or read book Converted Byzantine Churches in Istanbul written by Süleyman Kırımtayıf and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul written by Thomas F. Mathews and published by University Park ; London : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea of Faith written by Stephen O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sea of Faith, O'Shea chronicles both the meeting of minds and the collisions of armies that marked the interaction of Cross and Crescent in the Middle Ages-the better to understand their apparently intractable conflict today. For all the great and everlasting moments of cultural interchange and tolerance-in Cordoba, Palermo, Constantinople-the ultimate "geography of belief " was decided on the battlefield. O'Shea vividly recounts seven pivotal battles between the forces of Christianity and Islam that shaped the Mediterranean world-from the loss of the Christian Middle East to the Muslims at Yarmuk (Turkey) in 636 to the stemming of the seemingly unstoppable Ottoman tide at Malta in 1565. In between, the battles raged round the Mediterranean, from Poitiers in France and Hattin in the Holy Land during the height of the Crusades, to the famed contest for Constantinople in 1453 that signaled the end of Byzantium. As much as the armies were motivated by belief, their exploits were inspired by leaders such as Charles Martel, Saladin, and Mehmet II, whose stirring feats were sometimes accompanied by unexpected changes of heart.
Download or read book Mosques Converted from Churches by the Ottoman Empire written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Mosques converted from churches in Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, Gul Mosque, Chora Church, Fenari Isa Mosque, Little Hagia Sophia, Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Bodrum Mosque, Zeyrek Mosque, Eski Imaret Mosque, Kalenderhane Mosque, Arap Mosque, Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Pammakaristos Church, Vefa Kilise Mosque, Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque, Monastery of Stoudios, Kefeli Mosque, Manast r Mosque, Istanbul, Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque, Hagios Demetrios, Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Church of the Holy Apostles, Church of the Acheiropoietos, Matthias Church, Hagia Sophia Church, eyh Suleyman Mosque, Cathedral of Kars, Jezzar Pasha Mosque, Church of Panagia Chalkeon, Selimiye Mosque, Haydarpasha Mosque. Excerpt: Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: , "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: ) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom - the full name in Greek being, "Church of the Holy Wisdom of God." Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to...
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Constantinople written by Alexander Van Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Churches in Istanbul written by Edith Oyhon and published by Yky. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Constantinople written by Alexander Van Millingen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BYZANTINE CHURCHES IN CONSTANTINOPLE This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East, and the bulwark of civilization for more than a thousand years. But the city of Constantine was not only a mighty fortress. It was, moreover, the centre of a great religious community, which elaborated dogmas, fostered forms of piety, and controlled an ecclesiastical administration that have left a profound impression upon the thought and life of mankind. New Rome was a Holy City. It was crowded with churches, hallowed, it was believed, by the remains of the apostles, prophets, saints, and martyrs of the Catholic Church; shrines at which men gathered to worship, from near and far, as before the gates of heaven. These sanctuaries were, furthermore, constructed and beautified after a fashion which marks a distinct and important period in the history of art, and have much to interest the artist and the architect. We have, consequently, reasons enough to justify our study of the churches of Byzantine Constantinople. Of the immense number of the churches which once filled the city but a small remnant survives. Earthquakes, fires, pillage, neglect, not to speak of the facility with which a Byzantine structure could be shorn of its glory, have swept the vast majority off the face of the earth, leaving not a rack behind. In most cases even the sites on which they stood cannot be identified. The places which knew them know them no more. Scarcely a score of the old churches of the city are left to us, all with one exception converted into mosques and sadly altered. The visitor must, therefore, be prepared for disappointment. Age is not always a crown of glory; nor does change of ownership and adaptation to different ideas and tastes necessarily conduce to improvement. We are not looking at flowers in their native clime or in full bloom, but at flowers in a herbarium so to speak, or left to wither and decay. As we look upon them we have need of imagination to see in faded colours the graceful forms and brilliant hues which charmed and delighted the eyes of men in other days. In the preparation of this work I have availed myself of the aid afforded by previous stu-dents in the same field of research, and I have gratefully acknowledged my debt to them whenever there has been occasion to do so. At the same time this is a fresh study of the sub-ject, and has been made with the hope of confirming what is true, correcting mistakes, and gathering additional information. Attention has been given to both the history and the archi-tecture of these buildings. The materials for the former are, unfortunately, all too scanty. No continuous records of any of these churches exist. A few incidents scattered over wide tracts of time constitute all that can be known. Still, disconnected incidents though they be, they give us glimpses of the characteristic thoughts and feelings of a large mass of our humanity during a long period of history. ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN. Robert College, Constantinople.
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Constantinople written by Alexander Millingen and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East, and the bulwark of civilization for more than a thousand years. But the city of Constantine was not only a mighty fortress. It was, moreover, the centre of a great religious community, which elaborated dogmas, fostered forms of piety, and controlled an ecclesiastical administration that have left a profound impression upon the thought and life of mankind. New Rome was a Holy City. It was crowded with churches, hallowed, it was believed, by the remains of the apostles, prophets, saints, and martyrs of the Catholic Church ; shrines at which men gathered to worship, from near and far, as before the gates of heaven. These sanctuaries were, furthermore, constructed and beautified after a fashion which marks a distinct and important period in the history of art, and have much to interest the artist and the architect. We have, consequently, reasons enough to justify our study of the churches of Byzantine Constantinople.Of the immense number of the churches which once filled the city but a small remnant survives. Earthquakes, fires, pillage, neglect, not to speak of the facility with which a Byzantine structure could be shorn of its glory, have swept the vast majority off the face of the earth, leaving not a rack behind. In most cases even the sites on which they stood cannot be identified. The places which knew them know them no more. Scarcely a score of the old churches of the city are left to us, all with one exception converted into mosques and sadly altered. The visitor must, therefore, be prepared for disappointment. Age is not always a crown of glory; nor does change of ownership and adaptation to different ideas and tastes necessarily conduce to improvement. We are not looking at flowers in their native clime or in full bloom, but at flowers in a herbarium so to speak, or left to wither and decay. As we look upon them we have need of imagination to see in faded colours the graceful forms and brilliant hues which charmed and delighted the eyes of men in other days.
Download or read book Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites written by Elazar Barkan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not—by conflict, and the policy consequences. These essays map the choreographies of shared sacred spaces within the framework of state-society relations, juxtaposing a site's political and religious features and exploring whether sharing or contestation is primarily religious or politically motivated. Although religion and politics are intertwined phenomena, the contributors to this volume understand the category of "religion" and the "political" as devices meant to distinguish between the theological and confessional aspects of religion and the political goals of groups. Their comparative approach better represents the transition in some cases of sites into places of hatred and violence, while in other instances they remain noncontroversial. The essays clearly delineate the religious and political factors that contribute to the context and causality of conflict at these sites and draw on history and anthropology to shed light on the often rapid switch from relative tolerance to distress to peace and calm.
Download or read book Inside Out in Istanbul written by Lisa Morrow and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning to travel to Istanbul and want to know what adventures will await you? Already been and want to know more? "Inside Out In Istanbul" is a collection of short stories about life in Istanbul by author Lisa Morrow. Lisa first went to Turkey in 1990, where she stayed in the small village of Göreme for three months during the Gulf War. Since that time she has travelled back and forth between Turkey and Australia many times, living and working in Istanbul and Kayseri in central Turkey, before finally settling for good in Istanbul. The stories in this collection take you beyond the world famous sights of Istanbul to the shores of Asia, to an Istanbul that is vibrantly alive with the sounds of street vendors, wedding parties, weekly markets and more. Come behind the tourist façades and venture deep into this sometimes chaotic, often schizophrenic but always charming city.
Download or read book Studies in Byzantine Monasticism written by Alice-Mary Talbot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries. Envisaged as a companion Variorum volume to Talbot's Women and Religious Life in Byzantium (2001), this compendium complements its predecessor by focusing more attention on male monasteries, hermits and holy mountains, while offering some pioneering studies of female patrons, rural nuns, and the links of many Byzantine women to Mount Athos. The volume also complements Talbot's 2019 monograph, Varieties of Monastic Experience in Byzantium, 800-1453, by offering detailed analyses of topics that could only be briefly addressed in that book. Introductory essays include an overview of the historical development of Byzantine monasteries and holy mountains, emphasising the intertwining of monasticism with urban and rural society. Subsequent essays explore the regimen at coenobitic monasteries, while paying considerable attention to the less well-known lifestyles of hermits, especially those on holy mountains. Other topics include monastery gardens and horticulture; the culture of the refectory; challenges for adolescent novices; factors influencing the choice of a monastery’s foundation site; female patronage of monastery construction and restoration; the conversion of monasteries from male to female and vice-versa; rules regarding personal poverty for monastics; and the choice of a monastic name.
Download or read book En Sof a mathit fsantes Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi Verti written by Charikleia Diamanti and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 30 studies presented here are dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. They cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history.
Download or read book Byzantium s Other Empire written by Antony Eastmond and published by Koc University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition "Byzantium's other empire: Trebizond" at Kooc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, June 24-September 18 2016. A Turkish edition appears under the title "Bizens'n eoteki imparatorlugu: Trabzon."
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Istanbul written by Ziya Erkins and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Constantinople written by Ramsay Traquair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BYZANTINE CHURCHES IN CONSTANTINOPLEThis volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East, and the bulwark of civilization for more than a thousand years. But the city of Constantine was not only a mighty fortress. It was, moreover, the centre of a great religious community, which elaborated dogmas, fostered forms of piety, and controlled an ecclesiastical administration that have left a profound impression upon the thought and life of mankind. New Rome was a Holy City. It was crowded with churches, hallowed, it was believed, by the remains of the apostles, prophets, saints, and martyrs of the Catholic Church; shrines at which men gathered to worship, from near and far, as before the gates of heaven. These sanctuaries were, furthermore, constructed and beautified after a fashion which marks a distinct and important period in the history of art, and have much to interest the artist and the architect. We have, consequently, reasons enough to justify our study of the churches of Byzantine Constantinople.Of the immense number of the churches which once filled the city but a small remnant survives. Earthquakes, fires, pillage, neglect, not to speak of the facility with which a Byzantine structure could be shorn of its glory, have swept the vast majority off the face of the earth, leaving not a rack behind. In most cases even the sites on which they stood cannot be identified. The places which knew them know them no more. Scarcely a score of the old churches of the city are left to us, all with one exception converted into mosques and sadly altered. The visitor must, therefore, be prepared for disappointment. Age is not always a crown of glory; nor does change of ownership and adaptation to different ideas and tastes necessarily conduce to improvement. We are not looking at flowers in their native clime or in full bloom, but at flowers in a herbarium so to speak, or left to wither and decay. As we look upon them we have need of imagination to see in faded colours the graceful forms and brilliant hues which charmed and delighted the eyes of men in other days.In the preparation of this work I have availed myself of the aid afforded by previous stu-dents in the same field of research, and I have gratefully acknowledged my debt to them whenever there has been occasion to do so. At the same time this is a fresh study of the sub-ject, and has been made with the hope of confirming what is true, correcting mistakes, and gathering additional information. Attention has been given to both the history and the archi-tecture of these buildings. The materials for the former are, unfortunately, all too scanty. No continuous records of any of these churches exist. A few incidents scattered over wide tracts of time constitute all that can be known. Still, disconnected incidents though they be, they give us glimpses of the characteristic thoughts and feelings of a large mass of our humanity during a long period of history.ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN.Robert College, Constantinople.
Download or read book Byzantine Churches in Constantinople written by Alexander Van Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Ottoman Coexistence written by Rebecca Bryant and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: everyday coexistence in the post-Ottoman space / Rebecca Bryant -- Landscapes of coexistence and conflict -- Sharing traditions of land use and ownership : considering the "ground" for coexistence and conflict in pre-modern Cyprus / Irene Dietzel -- Intersecting religioscapes in post-Ottoman spaces : trajectories of change, competition and sharing of religious spaces / Robert Hayden -- Cosmopolitanism or constitutive violence? : the creation of "Turkish" heraklion / Aris Anagnostopoulos -- Trade and exchange in Nicosia's common realm : Ermou street in the 1940s and 1950s / Anita Bakshi -- Performing coexistence and difference -- In bed together : coexistence in togo Mizrahia's Alexandria films / Deborah A. Starr -- Memory, conviviality and coexistence : negotiating class differences in Burgazadas, Istanbul / Deniz Neriman Duru -- "If you write this tano, it will be tono!" : performing linguistic difference in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina / Azra Hromadzic -- Negotiating everyday coexistence in the shadow of conflict -- The Istanbul Armenians : negotiating coexistence / Sossie Kasbarian -- A conflict of spaces or of recognition? : co-presence in divided Jerusalem / Sylvaine Bulle -- Grounds for sharing, occasions for conflict : an inquiry into the social foundations of cohabitation and antagonism / Glenn Bowman
