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The Hagia Sophia in Its Urban Context: an Interpretation of the Transformations of an Architectural Monument with Its Changing Physical and Cultural Environment
THE HAGIA SOPHIA IN ITS URBAN CONTEXT: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENT WITH ITS CHANGING PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences of İzmir Institute of Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in Architecture by Nazlı TARAZ August 2014 İZMİR We approve the thesis of Nazlı TARAZ Examining Committee Members: ___________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep AKTÜRE Department of Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology _____________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Ela ÇİL SAPSAĞLAM Department of Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology ___________________________ Dr. Çiğdem ALAS 25 August 2014 ___________________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep AKTÜRE Supervisor, Department of Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology ____ ___________________________ ______________________________ Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şeniz ÇIKIŞ Prof. Dr. R. Tuğrul SENGER Head of the Department of Architecture Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Sciences ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor Assist.Prof.Dr.Zeynep AKTÜRE for her guidance, patience and sharing her knowledge during the entire study. This thesis could not be completed without her valuable and unique support. I would like to express my sincere thanks to my committee members Assist. Prof. Dr. Ela ÇİL SAPSAĞLAM, Dr. Çiğdem ALAS, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erdem ERTEN and Assist. Prof. Dr. Zoltan SOMHEGYI for their invaluable comments and recommendations. I owe thanks to my sisters Yelin DEMİR, Merve KILIÇ, Nil Nadire GELİŞKAN and Banu Işıl IŞIK for not leaving me alone and encouraging me all the time. And I also thank to Seçkin YILDIRIMDEMİR who has unabled to sleep for days to help and motivate me in the hardest times of this study. -
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Patrimonio y Desarrollo. Estudios De la gloria de Bizancio a la Capitalidad Europea de la Cultura. Estrategias de intervención urbana en Estambul From Byzance´s glory to the European Capital of Culture. Urban intervention strategies in Istanbul María Pilar García Cuetos Profesora Titular, Universidad de Oviedo Resumen Las casas tradicionales de madera de Estambul constituyen una parte fundamental del patrimonio de la ciudad, pero desde los años cincuenta del siglo XX han ido desapareciendo, sustituidas por estructuras de hormigón. A partir de los años setenta, varios proyectos de restauración han intentado salvarlas, siguiendo concepciones muy diferentes sobre la restauración, sobre el concepto de la autenticidad y sobre la idea de ciudad. Desde las restauraciones basadas en la demolición/reconstrucción y en la recreación de escenarios urbanos para turistas, hasta las intervenciones que aúnan desarrollo social y recuperación patrimonial, se analizan las diversas estrategias de intervención en la ciudad. Palabras clave: Estambul, restauración, casas de madera, recuperación urbana, autenticidad. Abstract Traditional wooden houses are a fundamental part of Istambul heritage, but from the fifties of the 20th century they have been disappearing, replaced with structures of concrete. From the seventies, several restoration projects have tried to protect them, following different conceptions on restoration, on the concept of the authenticity, and on the idea of the city. From restorations based on the demolition / reconstruction and on the recreation of urban scenes for tourists, up to the interventions that join social development and cultural heritage restoration, the strategies of intervention in the city are analyzed. Keywords: Istanbul, restoration, wooden houses, urban intervention, authenticity. -
The Views of Byzantine Thinker Theodoros Metochites About the Sorrow, and the Instability of Human Life
American International Journal of Social Science Vol. 4, No. 2; April 2015 The Views of Byzantine Thinker Theodoros Metochites about the Sorrow, and the Instability of Human Life Sotiria, A. Triantari Associate Professor in Philosophy School of Education University of Western of Macedonia Foteini, P. Sarimichailidou PhD candidate in Philosophy School of Philosophy and Education Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Abstract The purpose of this study is to show, first, that Theodoros Metochites recognized the human weakness to lead a life without sorrow “ἄλυπος βίος” and proceeded to the distinction of sorrow that is not up to us caused by external reasons and the sorrow that is up to us due to the human will. The sorrow that is up to us is related to learning and constitutes treatment for the estrangement of a human being from the sorrow that is not up to us and the turn to himself. Second, aim is to show that Metochites’ perception about a life without sorrow “ἄλυπος βίος” was influenced by Stoic Epictetus’ views, which respect to the proairesis, and particularly what it’s up to us. Keywords: Sorrow, human will, education Introduction: The Intellectual Context of Metochites Time Theodoros Metochites (1260-1332) was an authentic Humanist, who lived in the Palaiologan period. He was the son of the pro-unionist George Metochites. His parents supervised his early education and Theodoros himself showed a great zeal for learning. At the age of thirteen he had a complete Enkyklios paideia. After he had completed the study of grammar and poetry, he started a course in rhetoric. -
Manuel II Palaiologos' Point of View
The Hidden Secrets: Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context Małgorzata Dąbrowska The Hidden Secrets: Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context Małgorzata Dąbrowska − University of Łódź, Faculty of Philosophy and History Department of Medieval History, 90-219 Łódź, 27a Kamińskiego St. REVIEWERS Maciej Salamon, Jerzy Strzelczyk INITIATING EDITOR Iwona Gos PUBLISHING EDITOR-PROOFREADER Tomasz Fisiak NATIVE SPEAKERS Kevin Magee, François Nachin TECHNICAL EDITOR Leonora Wojciechowska TYPESETTING AND COVER DESIGN Katarzyna Turkowska Cover Image: Last_Judgment_by_F.Kavertzas_(1640-41) commons.wikimedia.org Printed directly from camera-ready materials provided to the Łódź University Press This publication is not for sale © Copyright by Małgorzata Dąbrowska, Łódź 2017 © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2017 Published by Łódź University Press First edition. W.07385.16.0.M ISBN 978-83-8088-091-7 e-ISBN 978-83-8088-092-4 Printing sheets 20.0 Łódź University Press 90-131 Łódź, 8 Lindleya St. www.wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl e-mail: [email protected] tel. (42) 665 58 63 CONTENTS Preface 7 Acknowledgements 9 CHAPTER ONE The Palaiologoi Themselves and Their Western Connections L’attitude probyzantine de Saint Louis et les opinions des sources françaises concernant cette question 15 Is There any Room on the Bosporus for a Latin Lady? 37 Byzantine Empresses’ Mediations in the Feud between the Palaiologoi (13th–15th Centuries) 53 Family Ethos at the Imperial Court of the Palaiologos in the Light of the Testimony by Theodore of Montferrat 69 Ought One to Marry? Manuel II Palaiologos’ Point of View 81 Sophia of Montferrat or the History of One Face 99 “Vasilissa, ergo gaude...” Cleopa Malatesta’s Byzantine CV 123 Hellenism at the Court of the Despots of Mistra in the First Half of the 15th Century 135 4 • 5 The Power of Virtue. -
TURKEY Threats to the World Heritage in the Changing Metropolitan Areas of Istanbul
Turkey 175 TURKEY Threats to the World Heritage in the Changing Metropolitan Areas of Istanbul The Historic Areas of Istanbul on the Bosporus peninsula were in- scribed in 1985 in the World Heritage List, not including Galata and without a buffer zone to protect the surroundings. Risks for the historic urban topography of Istanbul, especially by a series of high- rise buildings threatening the historic urban silhouette, were already presented in Heritage at Risk 2006/2007 (see the visual impact as- sessment study by Astrid Debold-Kritter on pp. 159 –164). In the last years, dynamic development and transformation have changed the metropolitan areas with a new scale of building inter- ventions and private investments. Furthermore, the privatisation of urban areas and the development of high-rise buildings with large ground plans or in large clusters have dramatically increased. orld eritagea,,eerules and standards set upby arely knownconveyrthe ap- provedConflicts in managing the World Heritage areas of Istanbul Metropolis derive from changing the law relevant for the core area- sisthe . Conservation sites and areas of conservation were proposed in 1983. In 1985, the historic areas of Istanbul were inscribed on the basis of criteria 1 to 4. The four “core areas”, Archaeological Park, Süleymaniye conservation site, Zeyrek conservation site, and the Theodosian land walls were protected by Law 2863, which in Article I (4) gives a definition of “conservation” and of “areas of conservation”. Article II defines right and responsibility: “cultural and natural property cannot be acquired through possession”; article Fig. 1. Project for Diamond of Dubai, 2010, height 270 m, 53 floors, Hattat 17 states that “urban development plans for conservation” have to Holding Arch. -
Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods
heritage Article Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods Elif Sarihan Department of Civil Engineering, University of Debrecen, 4028 Debrecen, Hungary; [email protected] Abstract: The methodological approach of the study proposes an innovative yet adaptive way to define and preserve heritage sites and their elements. In the case study, the proposed methodology guides the design/planning research of heritage sites by linking the perceptual behaviour with the information of the built environment. Visibility is the tool to measure the level of exposure of specific urban elements from a particular perspective. While isovist analyses define visibility in the built environment, fields of view from the periphery of heritage sites are applied to calculate visible or invisible areas by the observer. The purpose of the current study is the evaluation of the identification of the elements to be protected, by modelling both the heritage environment and the heritage elements according to the visibility criteria. For this purpose, I illustrate my approach by using visibility analyses and Space syntax analysis in the case of the Sulukule neighbourhood, the leading renewal project, in Istanbul. This area used to have notably cultural–historical assets–historic land walls, the lifestyle of Roma people—but now the renovation works carried out in the Sulukule case study site have affected the identity of the “visible” and “known” space of the historic quarter. Keywords: visibility analysis; isovist; field of view; urban heritage; built environment; Istanbul Citation: Sarihan, E. Visibility Model of Tangible Heritage. Visualization of the Urban Heritage Environment with Spatial Analysis Methods. -
Report on the Joint World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS Mission to The
World Heritage 32 COM Patrimoine mondial Paris, June/ Juin 2008 DISTRIBUTION LIMITED / LIMITÉE Original: English / français UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'EDUCATION, LA SCIENCE ET LA CULTURE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION CONCERNANT LA PROTECTION DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL, CULTUREL ET NATUREL WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE / COMITE DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL Thirty-second session / Trente et deuxième session Quebec, Canada / Québec, Canada 2 – 10 July 2008 / 2 – 10 juillet 2008 Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda: State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and/or on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Point 7 de l’Ordre du jour provisoire: Etat de conservation de biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial et/ou sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril MISSION REPORT / RAPPORT DE MISSION Historic Areas of Istanbul (Turkey) (356) Zones historiques d'Istanbul (Turquie) (356) From 8 to 13 May 2008 / Du 8 au 13 mai 2008 This mission report should be read in conjunction with Document: Ce rapport de mission doit être lu conjointement avec le document suivant: WHC08/32.COM/7B Add.2 2 REPORT ON THE JOINT WORLD HERITAGE CENTRE/ICOMOS MISSION TO THE HISTORIC AREAS OF ISTANBUL WORLD HERITAGE SITE FROM 8 TO 13 MAY 2008 Above: part of the extensive archaeological mitigation works at Yenikapı, which have so far uncovered remains of the Constantinian Sea Walls, the Eleutherios Harbout, a Byzantine church and cemetery, no less than 32 Byzantine ships and many other finds and artefacts. -
Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome
KARIN HULT HULT KARIN Studia graeca et latina Gothoburgensia LXX THEODORE METOCHITES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE DECLINE OF ROME OF DECLINE THE AND CONDITION HUMAN THE ON METOCHITES THEODORE KARIN HULT THEODORE METOCHITES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE DECLINE OF ROME SEMEIOSEIS GNOMIKAI 27–60 CRITICAL EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, NOTES, AND INDEXES THEODORE METOCHITES ON THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE DECLINE OF ROME STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA GOTHOBURGENSIA LXX Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60 A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes by Karin Hult © Karin Hult 2016 ISBN 978-91-7346-889-3 (print) ISBN 978-91-7346-890-9 (pdf ) ISBN 978-91-7346-900-5 (epub) ISBN 978-91-7346-899-2 (mobi) ISSN 0081-6450 ISSN 2002-2131 Kriterium (Online) http://dx.doi.org/10.21524/kriterium.4 Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, volume 70 Editor: Gunhild Vidén This volume is published within the framework of Kriterium, a quality hall- mark for Swedish academic books. All Kriterium publications undergo peer review according to set guidelines, and are available as open access publica- tions at www.kriterium.se Printed with grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Herbert & Karin Jacobssons Stiftelse Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Box 222, 405 30 Göteborg [email protected] Typesetting and cover: philologicon, Eric Cullhed Print: Responstryck, Borås 2016 Abstract Title: Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome. Semeioseis gnomikai 27–60. A -
Funktionen Der Byzantinischen Epistolographie. Studien Zu
FUNKTIONEN DER BYZANTINISCHEN EPISTOLOGRAPHIE Studien zu den Briefen und Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos (ca. 1260–1327) Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München vorgelegt von Alexander Riehle aus München 2014 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berger Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Michael Grünbart Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 22. Juli 2011 INHALTSVERZEICHNIS Abkürzungs- und Siglenverzeichnis ............................................................................................ III Einleitung .......................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Gegenstand und Ziel der Arbeit ........................................................................................... 1 2. Methodologisch-hermeneutische Problemstellung: Einzelbrief vs. Briefsammlung .. 2 3. Praktisches .............................................................................................................................. 6 Teil 1: Grundlagen: Der Autor und sein epistolographisches Werk ........................................... 7 1. Der Autor ................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Zu Nikephoros᾿ Geburtsdatum und früher Karriere .................................................. 7 1.2 Zur Kontroverse zwischen Nikephoros und Theodoros Metochites ................... 13 1.3 Nikephoros und die Gicht .......................................................................................... -
Masterarbeit / Master´S Thesis
MASTERARBEIT / MASTER´S THESIS Titel der Masterarbeit / Title of the Master´s Thesis „Marriage Strategies in the Early Palaiologan Period“ verfasst von / submitted by Konstantina Gerakini angestrebter akademischer Grad / in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (MA) Wien, 2018 / Vienna 2018 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt / A 066 869 degree programme code as it appears on the student record sheet: Studienrichtung lt. Studienblatt / Masterstudium Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik degree programme as it appears on the student record sheet: Betreut von / Supervisor: Univ.- Prof. Dr. Claudia Rapp TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 INTRODUCTION The historical frame 4 Late Byzantine aristocracy: definition and state of research 6 Methodological approach 7 The Structure of the Thesis 8 The Sources 9 I. THE ARISTOCRACY IN THE EARLY PALAIOLOGAN PERIOD I.1. The Byzantine aristocracy: definition and terminology 13 Ranks and offices in the early Palaiologan period 18 The self-consciousness of the aristocracy 21 I.2.The Palaiologan high aristocracy 23 II. MARRIAGE STRATEGIES OF THE ARISTOCRACY IN THE EARLY PALAIOLOGAN PERIOD II.1. Marriage strategies of the aristocracy from the tenth to thirteenth century 41 Marriage strategies of the military aristocracy of the tenth century 41 Marriage strategies of the aristocratic families of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Komnenoi and the Doukai 44 Marriage strategies of the Angeloi and the Laskarids 49 II.2. Marriage strategies until 1259. The rise of the Palaiologoi 51 Marriage strategies of the Laskarids and other families of the aristocracy 57 1 II.3. Marriage strategies in the reign of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259-1282) 62 II.4. -
Mihail Mitrea a LATE BYZANTINE SWAN SONG
Mihail Mitrea A LATE BYZANTINE SWAN SONG: MAXIMOS NEAMONITES AND HIS LETTERS MA Thesis in Comparative History with the specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies CEU eTD Collection Central European University Budapest May 2011 A LATE BYZANTINE SWAN SONG: MAXIMOS NEAMONITES AND HIS LETTERS by Mihail Mitrea (Romania) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Comparative History, with the specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU ____________________________________________________________ Chair, Examination Committee ____________________________________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________________________________ Examiner CEU eTD Collection ____________________________________________________________ Examiner Budapest May 2011 A LATE BYZANTINE SWAN SONG: MAXIMOS NEAMONITES AND HIS LETTERS by Mihail Mitrea (Romania) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Comparative History, with the specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU ____________________________________________________________ External Examiner CEU eTD Collection Budapest May 2011 A LATE BYZANTINE SWAN SONG: MAXIMOS NEAMONITES AND HIS LETTERS by -
Land and Privilege in Byzantium: the Institution of Pronoia Mark C
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00962-2 - Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia Mark C. Bartusis Frontmatter More information Land and Privilege in Byzantium A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. In large measure the institution of pronoia characterized social and economic relations in later Byzantium, and its study is the study of later Byzantium. Fill- ing the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution, and characteristics of pronoia, focus- ing particularly on the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But the book is much more than a study of a single institution. With a broad chronological scope extending from the mid-tenth to the mid- fifteenth century, it incorporates the latest understanding of Byzantine agrarian relations, taxation, administration, and the economy, as it deals with relations between the emperor, monastic and lay landhold- ers, including soldiers and peasants. Particular attention is paid to the relation between the pronoia and western European, Slavic, and Middle Eastern institutions, especially the Ottoman timar. mark c. bartusis is Professor of History at Northern State Univer- sity. He is an expert in later Byzantine political, social, and military history and author of The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204–1453. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00962-2 - Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia Mark C. Bartusis Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00962-2 - Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia Mark C.