Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0674066626 ISBN 13: 9780674066625

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic, 2013

Riassunto

Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable duration and territorial extent, the Byzantine and the Ottoman. The essays offer a diachronic and comparative account that spans the medieval and early modern periods and reaches into the nineteenth century. Methodologically rich, the essays combine historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives. Through texts as diverse as court records and chancery manuals, imperial treatises and fictional works, travel literature and theatrical adaptations, the essays explore ways in which the production of geographical knowledge supported imperial authority or revealed its precarious mastery of geography.

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L'autore:

Sahar Bazzaz is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Center for Hellenic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0674066626
• ISBN 13: 9780674066625
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Redattore: Bazzaz Sahar, Batsaki Yota, Angelov Dimiter