Cities as Palimpsests? : : Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism / / Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, Louise Blanke.
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think 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)...
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| Superior document: | Impact of the Ancient City Series ; v.1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Oxbow Books,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Impact of the Ancient City Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (431 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical distance, physical presence and the living past of cities / Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke
- Between wars and peace: some archaeological and historiographical aspects to studying urban transformations in Jerusalem / Gideon Avni
- Visualizing Constantinople as a palimpsest / Robert Ousterhout
- Transcultural encounters in medieval Anatolia: The Sungur Ağa Mosque in Niğde / Suna Çağaptay
- 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
- Echoes of late antique Esbus in Mamluk Ḥisbān (Jordan) / Bethany J. Walker
- Constantinople's medieval antiquarians of the future / Benjamin Anderson
- William of Tyre and the cities of the Levant / Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
- Portraits of Ottoman Athens from Martin Crusius to Strategos Makriyannis / Elizabeth Key Fowden
- Perceptions, histories and urban realities of Thessaloniki's layered past / Nikolas Bakirtzis
- From Byzantion to Constantinople / Paul Magdalino
- Looking in two directions: Urban (re)building in sixth-century Asia Minor / Ine Jacobs
- Byzantine urban imagination: Idealisation and political thinking (eighth to fifteenth centuries) / Helen Saradi
- Ottoman urbanism and capital cities before the conquest of Constantinople (1453) / Dimitri J. Kastritsis
- New history for old Istanbul: Late Ottoman encounters with Constantinople in the urban landscape / Göksun Akyürek
- Medieval Arabic archaeologies of the ancient cities of Syria / Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
- (Re)constructing Jarash: History, historiography and the making of the ancient city / Louise Blanke
- Constantinople in the sixteenth-century Maghribī imaginary: The travelogue of ʻAlī al-Tamgrūtī / Amira K. Bennison
- Beirut as a palimpsest: Conflicting present pasts, materiality and interpretation / Assaad Seif.