CFP: FRONTIER ARCHITECTURES IN LATE MEDIEVAL ANATOLIA, 1100-1450 (deadline 1er juin 2013)
Society of Architectural Historians, 67th Annual Conference Austin, TX, 9-13 April 2014 Deadline: 1 June 2013 For full call for papers and to submit abstracts: http://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/2014-conference---austin
Over the past years, a critical body of scholarship on the architecture of late medieval Anatolia has emerged, which discusses the fluid frontier character of the region as crucial for its building fabric. Increasingly, historians of art and architecture look across the perceived boundaries between modern nation states or religious communities. Rapid historical changes affected the region: in the late eleventh century, Turkish Muslim tribal confederations moved into the Byzantine Empire. As one of these groups, the Seljuks, consolidated their rule, the slow yet steady Islamization of Anatolia began. The Seljuks commissioned mosques, city walls, and caravanserais to mark their rule. Already in the 1240s, the Mongol of the region led to the submission of the Seljuks to new overlords. Under Mongol rule, architectural patronage in Muslim Anatolia greatly shifted; connections to Iran, the Caucasus, and Central Asia were renewed. The Byzantine capital fell to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, only to be reestablished several decades later in diminished form. The nascent Ottoman principality became an important new actor that would defeat the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Cemal Kafadar has pointed out that limitations of national narratives have greatly influenced the study of the history, art, and architecture of the region. Medieval Anatolia tends to be presented looking back from the perspective of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century. Thus, the medieval monuments appear as mere sources of inspiration for the imperial Ottoman mosques. This panel invites studies that cross disciplinary divides within architectural history and archaeology, and engage critically with the national historiographies of Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, and Greece, to create a more nuanced picture of this historically and culturally complex period through its monuments. Patricia Blessing, Stanford University, pblessin@stanford.edu
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Camille Rhoné (2013, 27 avril). CFP: FRONTIER ARCHITECTURES IN LATE MEDIEVAL ANATOLIA, 1100-1450 (deadline 1er juin 2013). Diwan. Consulté le 29 mars 2024, à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/npuh