William Kynan-Wilson
The Open University, History of Art, Faculty Member
- Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Faculty MemberUniversity of Bristol, History of Art, Faculty Memberadd
- Medieval England, History, Rome and Foreign Interactions, Ottoman History, Rome, City of, Visual Culture, and 75 moreMedieval Rome, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Medieval Studies, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, History of Art, Cultural History, Byzantium, Gerald of Wales, Medieval Rhetoric, Medieval parody and satire, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Writing, Medieval Travel Accounts, Relics (Religion), Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Medieval History, Medieval Literature, Medieval Art, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval Latin Literature, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman art and architecture, European Diplomacy and Ottoman Empire, Twelfth-century England, Robert Grosseteste, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Trafficking of relics, Hagiography, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, Medieval Church History, Medieval Europe, Byzantine Architectural Sculpture, Travel Literature, History of Istanbul, Art History, Art Byzantine, Medieval, Late antiquty, Roman Art, Russian Art, Renaissance, Theory, Iconography, Cult of Relics, Saints, Body, Triumph, Byzantine art, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), History of Collecting, Turkish Studies, William of Malmesbury, Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance, Henry of Blois, Henry III of England (1216-1272), Henry II of England, Anglo-Latin Literature, John of Salisbury, 12th century England, Turquerie, Sixteenth-century Costume Books, History of Costume, Costume (Art History), Mirabilia Urbis Romae / Marvels of Rome, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Visual Poetry, and Concrete Poetryedit
- My research explores cultural exchange in the medieval and early modern periods, working at the intersection of art h... moreMy research explores cultural exchange in the medieval and early modern periods, working at the intersection of art historical studies, literature and cultural history. I am particularly interested in the relationship between travel literature and visual culture in the Mediterranean world. I am currently writing a monograph on Ottoman costume books and editing several unpublished early modern travel accounts. My research on medieval Europe currently centres on twelfth- and thirteenth-century writers including William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, and Matthew Paris.
I completed my PhD in Art History under the supervision of Professor Paul Binski FBA at the University of Cambridge. My thesis examined Anglo-Norman writings on the art and archaeology of Rome in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University, and have previously held positions at the University of Bristol, Aalborg University in Denmark, the Freie Universität and Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, in addition to visiting research fellowships in Ankara, Athens, and Rome.
I am a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Classica et Medievalia:
https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/about
I am a member of the Societas Latina Daniae, which promotes Latin language, literature and culture in Denmark:
http://eafondretshistorie.dk/stifterne-societas-latina-daniae/
I have also collaborated and consulted with various museums and cultural institutions including: the British Museum, the V&A, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Sotheby's Islamic Art Department.edit
This special issue examines responses to papal communication in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1400. It contains seven multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary articles on this topic, and, in particular,... more
This special issue examines responses to papal communication in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1400. It contains seven multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary articles on this topic, and, in particular, emphasises the ways in which papal communication was tied to papal authority, the importance of examining the wider context and life cycle of papal communication. The essays in the special issue also consider some of the methodological challenges that this wider topic poses.
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This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100–1300; it presents a range of interdisciplinary approaches and original insights into the construction of papal authority and local perceptions of papal power... more
This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100–1300; it presents a range of interdisciplinary approaches and original insights into the construction of papal authority and local perceptions of papal power in the central Middle Ages.
Some of the chapters in this book focus on the visual, ritual and spatial communication that visitors encountered when they met the peripatetic papal curia in Rome or elsewhere, and how this informed their experience of papal self-representation. The essays analyse papal clothing as well as the iconography, architecture and use of space in papal palaces and the titular churches of Rome. Other chapters explore communication over long distances and analyse the role of gifts and texts such as letters, sermons and historical writings in relation to papal communication. Importantly, this book emphasises the plurality of responses to papal communication by engaging with the reception of papal messages by different audiences, both secular and ecclesiastical, and in relation to several geographic regions including England, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland.
Some of the chapters in this book focus on the visual, ritual and spatial communication that visitors encountered when they met the peripatetic papal curia in Rome or elsewhere, and how this informed their experience of papal self-representation. The essays analyse papal clothing as well as the iconography, architecture and use of space in papal palaces and the titular churches of Rome. Other chapters explore communication over long distances and analyse the role of gifts and texts such as letters, sermons and historical writings in relation to papal communication. Importantly, this book emphasises the plurality of responses to papal communication by engaging with the reception of papal messages by different audiences, both secular and ecclesiastical, and in relation to several geographic regions including England, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland.
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Art History, Medieval History, and 14 moreMedieval Studies, Historiography, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Medieval Europe, Medieval Art, Historia, Catholic Church, Medieval Rome, Papal History, History of the Papacy, Mediaeval History, Medieval Papacy, Papacy and Cardinals, and Medioevo Italiano
Henry of Blois (d. 1171) was a towering figure in twelfth-century England. Grandson of William the Conqueror and brother to King Stephen, he played a central role in shaping the course of the civil war that characterized his brother's... more
Henry of Blois (d. 1171) was a towering figure in twelfth-century England. Grandson of William the Conqueror and brother to King Stephen, he played a central role in shaping the course of the civil war that characterized his brother's reign. Bishop of Winchester and abbot of Glastonbury for more than four decades, Henry was one of the richest men in the kingdom, and effectively governed the English Church for a time as Papal Legate. Raised and tonsured at Cluny, he was an intimate friend of Peter the Venerable and later saved the great abbey from financial ruin. Towards the end of his life he presided, albeit reluctantly, over the trial of Thomas Becket. Henry was a remarkable man: an administrator of exceptional talent, a formidable ecclesiastical statesman, a bold and eloquent diplomat, and twelfth-century England's most prolific patron of the arts.
In the first major book-length study of Henry to be published since 1932, nine scholars explore new perspectives on the most crucial aspects of his life and legacy. By bringing ecclesiastical and documentary historians together with archaeologists and historians of art, architecture, literature and ideas, this interdisciplinary collection will serve as a catalyst for renewed study of this fascinating man and the world in which he operated.
Contributors: Martin Biddle, Barbara Bombi, John Crook, Claire Donovan, M.J. Franklin, Edmund King, William Kynan-Wilson, Matthew M. Mesley, John Munns
In the first major book-length study of Henry to be published since 1932, nine scholars explore new perspectives on the most crucial aspects of his life and legacy. By bringing ecclesiastical and documentary historians together with archaeologists and historians of art, architecture, literature and ideas, this interdisciplinary collection will serve as a catalyst for renewed study of this fascinating man and the world in which he operated.
Contributors: Martin Biddle, Barbara Bombi, John Crook, Claire Donovan, M.J. Franklin, Edmund King, William Kynan-Wilson, Matthew M. Mesley, John Munns
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Art History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, and 14 moreMedieval Studies, Historiography, English History, History of Art, Medieval England, Medieval Art, 12th century England, Historia, Medieval Art History, Winchester Cathedral, History of Art and Architecture, Medieval Art and Architecture, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, and Mediaeval Art
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This essay examines responses to papal communication in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1400. It introduces seven multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary articles in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval... more
This essay examines responses to papal communication in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1400. It introduces seven multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary articles in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on this topic, while also exploring further examples that reveal the range of responses to papal communication and the significance of these responses. It emphasises the ways in which papal communication was tied to papal authority, the importance of examining the wider context and life cycle of papal communication, and it considers some of the methodological challenges that this topic poses.
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This paper reconsiders the relationship between two descriptions of Rome produced in the central Middle Ages: the 'Mirabilia urbis Romae' (c.1140–3) attributed to the papal writer Canon Benedict and the 'Narracio de mirabilibus urbis... more
This paper reconsiders the relationship between two descriptions of Rome produced in the central Middle Ages: the 'Mirabilia urbis Romae' (c.1140–3) attributed to the papal writer Canon Benedict and the 'Narracio de mirabilibus urbis Romae' (c.1200) by the otherwise unknown author Master Gregory. In contrast to previous studies, it demonstrates a range of significant and revealing associations between these accounts that indicates Gregory was a knowledgeable and receptive reader of the papal 'Mirabilia' in some form. It will be shown that the 'Narracio' imitates, misreads and subverts the 'Mirabilia' in such a manner that suggests it is a parodic and satiric response by its enigmatic author. In closing, this essay explores the possible implications of Gregory's responses to the papal messages within the 'Mirabilia'.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, and 56 moreClassical Archaeology, Classics, Visual Studies, Art History, Rhetoric, Historical Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Reception Studies, Historical Linguistics, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, Historiography, Rome, City of, Visual Rhetoric, Audience and Reception Studies, Classical rhetoric, Culture, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Humor/Satire, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Visual And Material Rhetoric, Medieval Art, Classical Reception Studies, Christianity and Rome, Visual Arts, Medieval parody and satire, Satire & Irony, Roman Satire, Rome, Historia, Visual and Material Culture, Satire, Geschichte, Urbanism of Rome, Ancient Rome, Historia del Arte, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Classical Literature, História, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Historia Cultural, Papal History, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Alte Geschichte, Roman Archaeology, Medieval Popes, and Papal States
Co-authored with Gerd Althoff and Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt This essay examines the production and consumption of papal communication in the central Middle Ages. It outlines the development of the papacy, which formed the historical... more
Co-authored with Gerd Althoff and Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
This essay examines the production and consumption of papal communication in the central Middle Ages. It outlines the development of the papacy, which formed the historical and political framework for papal communication, and discusses the processes, themes and meanings behind various types of communication relating to the papacy in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1300. Particular emphasis is placed upon the plurality of responses to papal communication and on the relationship between papal communication and authority, and papal self-identity and perceptions. The essay introduces seven diverse and interdisciplinary articles in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on the papacy and communication in the central Middle Ages.
This essay examines the production and consumption of papal communication in the central Middle Ages. It outlines the development of the papacy, which formed the historical and political framework for papal communication, and discusses the processes, themes and meanings behind various types of communication relating to the papacy in Latin Christendom principally between the years 1100 and 1300. Particular emphasis is placed upon the plurality of responses to papal communication and on the relationship between papal communication and authority, and papal self-identity and perceptions. The essay introduces seven diverse and interdisciplinary articles in a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on the papacy and communication in the central Middle Ages.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Communication, Art History, Medieval Literature, and 41 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Historiography, Medieval urban history, Mass Communication, Early Medieval Archaeology, Political communication, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Papal Legates, Medieval Europe, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Historia, Papal Primacy, Papal Government, Papal Propaganda, História, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Papal History, Papal Diplomacy, Papal Infallibility, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), History of the Papal State (early modern age), Legates, History of the Papacy, Papal Documents, Papal Conclave, Medieval Popes, Papal legates, Papal Authority, Papal Chancery, Papal States, Popes, Papal Patronage, Papal Diplomatics, and History of Popes
This article examines textual descriptions of smiling, laughing and joking with the pope in thirteenth-century Rome. It focuses on two Anglo-Norman accounts of conducting litigation at the papal curia: Thomas of Marlborough's (d.1236)... more
This article examines textual descriptions of smiling, laughing and joking with the pope in thirteenth-century Rome. It focuses on two Anglo-Norman accounts of conducting litigation at the papal curia: Thomas of Marlborough's (d.1236) Chronicon abbatiae de Evesham and Gerald of Wales's (c. 1146–1220×23) De jure et statu Menevensis ecclesiae. Both authors include several careful and prominent references to smiling, laughing and joking, and specifically in relation to Pope Innocent III. These passages have previously been read as straightforward examples of wit and friendship, but this study shows that the authors use these physiological expressions to convey complex and subtly different pictures of the papal curia. Above all, this article demonstrates how Thomas and Gerald's descriptions of humorous interactions with the pope play crucial narrative and mnemonic roles within their work.
Il presente articolo esamina le descrizioni testuali del sorridere, del ridere e dello scherzare con il Papa nella Roma del XIII secolo. Si focalizza in particolare su due resoconti anglo-normanni di controversie nella curia papale: il 'Chronicon abbatiae de Evesham' di Thomas of Marlborough (data di morte 1236) e il 'De jure et statu Menevensis ecclesiae' di Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1220×23). In entrambi i testi sono presenti molti riferimenti attenti agli atti di sorridere, di ridere e di scherzare, in particolar modo in relazione a Papa Innocenzo III. Questi passaggi sono stati in precedenza interpretati come inequivocabili esempi di umorismo e amicizia, ma questo studio dimostra come gli autori usino queste ‘espressioni fisiologiche’ per descrivere immagini leggermente differenti della curia papale. Soprattutto questo articolo mostra come le descrizioni di interazione umoristica con il papa di Thomas of Marlborough e di Gerald of Wales giochino ruoli narrativi e mnemonici cruciali all'interno dei loro lavori.
Il presente articolo esamina le descrizioni testuali del sorridere, del ridere e dello scherzare con il Papa nella Roma del XIII secolo. Si focalizza in particolare su due resoconti anglo-normanni di controversie nella curia papale: il 'Chronicon abbatiae de Evesham' di Thomas of Marlborough (data di morte 1236) e il 'De jure et statu Menevensis ecclesiae' di Gerald of Wales (c. 1146–1220×23). In entrambi i testi sono presenti molti riferimenti attenti agli atti di sorridere, di ridere e di scherzare, in particolar modo in relazione a Papa Innocenzo III. Questi passaggi sono stati in precedenza interpretati come inequivocabili esempi di umorismo e amicizia, ma questo studio dimostra come gli autori usino queste ‘espressioni fisiologiche’ per descrivere immagini leggermente differenti della curia papale. Soprattutto questo articolo mostra come le descrizioni di interazione umoristica con il papa di Thomas of Marlborough e di Gerald of Wales giochino ruoli narrativi e mnemonici cruciali all'interno dei loro lavori.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Emotion, and 102 moreHistorical Anthropology, Art History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Italian Studies, Medieval Studies, Humor, Historiography, Rome, City of, Laughter, Smiling, History of the Senses, Identity (Culture), History Of Emotions, Medieval Rhetoric, Culture, Medieval Church History, Italian Cultural Studies, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Medieval Wales, Emotions (Social Psychology), Papal Legates, Medieval Europe, Humor/Satire, Medieval England, Medieval Architecture, Cardinals (Medieval Church History), Affect/Emotion, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Cardinals' courts, Early Middle Ages (History), Humour Psychology, Humor Studies, England, History of the Roman Curia, Normans, 12th century England, Historia Social, Emotions, Medieval Humor, Italy, Historia, Humour Studies, Historia de la Arquitectura, Humor and Sarcasm, Geschichte, Humour, Medieval history, history of emotions, political history, Ancient Rome, Historia del Arte, Anglo-Norman history, Middle Ages, Papacy, Gerald of Wales, História, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Historia Cultural, Istorie, Papal History, Laughter in Interaction, Papal Diplomacy, Innocent III, Philosophy of laughter, Historia y Teoria del Arte y la Arquitectura, Istorija, Medieval Italian Literature and History, Laughter and Emotion, History of the Papal State (early modern age), Roman Curia, Istoria Literaturii, la città di Roma, History of the Papacy, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Alte Geschichte, Mediaeval History, Memory in Medieval Culture, Medieval Laughter, Humor Medieval, Cardinals, Papal Conclave, Medieval History and Memory, Papacy and Cardinals, Medieval humour, Mediaeval Thought, Pope Innocent III, Papal Rome, City of Rome, Medieval Popes, Papal Chancery, Papal States, Popes, Istorie Medievală, Curia Romana, Giraldus Cambrensis, Medieval History of Italy, History of Popes, Medieval Memory, Papal Curia, Curia Papal, Paus Innocentius III, and Thomas of Marlborough
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Art History, and 41 moreOttoman History, Art, Cultural Heritage, History of India, Visual Culture, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Fashion History, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Islamic Studies, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, Islamic History, Islam, Costume (Anthropology), History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Indian Art, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, India, Historia, History of Indian Art, Costumes, History of Costumes, Artes, Historia del Arte, Costume history, Indian Archaeology and History of Art, Fashion and Costume, Costume, Medieval Costume and Textile, and Costumbres
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 71 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Ottoman History, European integration, Art, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Cultural Theory, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, History of Textiles, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Cultural Tourism, Codicology, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, 16th Century (History), Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural Memory, Drawing, History of Art, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Modern Turkey, Text And Image, Travel Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Material Culture, Books, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Costumes, Manuscripts, Europe, Fashion,textile and clothing, Cultura, Sanat, History of clothing and fashion, Osmanlı Tarihi, and Fashion
This paper examines William of Malmesbury's (c.1090—c.1142) detailed description of ancient Roman remains at Carlisle in northern England. This remarkable passage features in his 'Gesta pontificum Anglorum' (Book III ch. 99) and has been... more
This paper examines William of Malmesbury's (c.1090—c.1142) detailed description of ancient Roman remains at Carlisle in northern England. This remarkable passage features in his 'Gesta pontificum Anglorum' (Book III ch. 99) and has been much commented upon by previous scholars as an instance of personal observation.
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to indicate the pervasive influence of textual sources that mediated William’s description of these Roman ruins. Second, to demonstrate how William carefully projects his own 'romanitas' (Romanness) onto his description of these archaeological remains. Through close textual reading and literary analysis it is shown that this scene is not a straightforward example of antiquarianism based upon personal observation, but instead a complex passage of literary inclination which indicates the wider cultural associations of Rome and 'romanitas' within William of Malmesbury's historical writings.
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to indicate the pervasive influence of textual sources that mediated William’s description of these Roman ruins. Second, to demonstrate how William carefully projects his own 'romanitas' (Romanness) onto his description of these archaeological remains. Through close textual reading and literary analysis it is shown that this scene is not a straightforward example of antiquarianism based upon personal observation, but instead a complex passage of literary inclination which indicates the wider cultural associations of Rome and 'romanitas' within William of Malmesbury's historical writings.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 104 moreCultural Studies, European Studies, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Latin Literature, Roman History, Visual Studies, Art History, Historical Archaeology, Self and Identity, Medieval Literature, Art, Architecture, Medieval History, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, British History, Literature, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, Visual Culture, Medieval, Historiography, Rome, City of, History and Memory, Medievalism, Medieval urban history, Medieval Latin Literature, Identity (Culture), Archaeological Method & Theory, Identity politics, Classical rhetoric, Culture, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Culture Studies, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Late Antiquity, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, The Classical Tradition, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Medieval England, Medieval Architecture, Latin Epigraphy, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Imperial Rome, Roman military archaeology, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Classical Reception Studies, Christianity and Rome, Visual Arts, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Visual and Cultural Studies, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Archeologia, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Material Culture, 12th century England, History of Archaeology, Identity, History of architecture, Memory, Oral History and Memory, Historia, Literatura, Historia de la Arquitectura, William of Malmesbury, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Medieval Art History, Archeologia medievale, Geschichte, Ancient Rome, Historia del Arte, Medieval Society, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman history, women and family, monasticism, Anglo-Saxon history, Vikings, Anglo-Norman history, Middle Ages, Medieval Iconography, Classical Literature, Cultura, História, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Literatura Medieval, Historia Cultural, Roman Art, Medieval Art, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval History, Medieval Art and Architecture, Medieval England & Ireland & Normandy, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Mediaeval History, Archaeology of Colonialism, Architecture and Public Spaces, Roman Archaeology, and Mediaeval Thought
This article considers David Jones’ painting Quia per Incarnati at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Based upon original archival research it situated this painting in relation to the artist’s intimate and complex personal relationship with Jim... more
This article considers David Jones’ painting Quia per Incarnati at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Based upon original archival research it situated this painting in relation to the artist’s intimate and complex personal relationship with Jim Ede. Moreover, it demonstrated the importance that Jones attached to this specific work as well as other so-called ‘painted inscriptions,’ arguing that they represent a crucial but overlooked facet of David Jones’ artistry.
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Critical Theory, British Literature, History, Cultural History, and 31 moreCultural Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Visual Studies, English Literature, Art History, Art, Literature, Visual Culture, Poetry, Literary Criticism, English language, Painting, Identity (Culture), Twentieth Century Literature, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry, Twentieth Century History and Culture, Modern Poetry, History of Art, Modernism (Art History), British art, Contemporary Poetry, Text And Image, 20th Century, Visual Arts, Visual and Cultural Studies, 20th century Avant-Garde, 20th Century British Literature, Literatura, Concrete Poetry, and Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations
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16 individual catalogue entries on various items relating to this exhibition, mainly concerning Ottoman costume albums, as well as miniatures by Ottoman and Safavid artists. Entries include prints by Melchior Lorck, Venetian and Iznik... more
16 individual catalogue entries on various items relating to this exhibition, mainly concerning Ottoman costume albums, as well as miniatures by Ottoman and Safavid artists. Entries include prints by Melchior Lorck, Venetian and Iznik plates, a portrait of Sultan Bayezid I (after Veronese), the Sloane costume album, the Kaempfer Album, the Diez costume album, and John White's images of the Orient.
Research Interests: History, Art History, Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Islamic Art, and 11 moreIslamic Studies, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Orientalism in art, Visual Arts, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Sanat Tarihi, Sanat, and History of Oriental studies
This essay examines the origins of Orientalism (c. 1500–1800); it discusses the difficulties of applying the inherent rigidity of the concept to a period of great fluidity. The examples under discussion are largely drawn from costume... more
This essay examines the origins of Orientalism (c. 1500–1800); it discusses the
difficulties of applying the inherent rigidity of the concept to a period of great
fluidity. The examples under discussion are largely drawn from costume books and related imagery because this material both supports and problematises many tenets of Orientalism. First, there is evidence of greater plurality and dialogic exchange between East and West than the framework of Orientalism allows. What emerges is neither a picture of linear progression nor a concept solely fixed upon colonialism, but rather one in which multiple Orients and multiple Occidents flicker and disappear or, in some cases, become entrenched modes of understanding the Orient.
difficulties of applying the inherent rigidity of the concept to a period of great
fluidity. The examples under discussion are largely drawn from costume books and related imagery because this material both supports and problematises many tenets of Orientalism. First, there is evidence of greater plurality and dialogic exchange between East and West than the framework of Orientalism allows. What emerges is neither a picture of linear progression nor a concept solely fixed upon colonialism, but rather one in which multiple Orients and multiple Occidents flicker and disappear or, in some cases, become entrenched modes of understanding the Orient.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and 15 moreOttoman History, Middle East Studies, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Islamic History, Orientalism in art, Visual Arts, Persian Culture, Orientalism (Art History), Historia, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism and Religion, Sanat Tarihi, and Sanat
This study explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman costume albums in relation to the theme of entertainment. There are many approaches to engaging with this topic, of which the most obvious is to examine the rich and varied... more
This study explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman costume albums in relation to the theme of entertainment. There are many approaches to engaging with this topic, of which the most obvious is to examine the rich and varied depictions of entertaining actions and scenes in these albums, including: visions of dancers and musicians, moments of leisure, or representations of celebration such as the men enjoying a ferris wheel to mark the conclusion of Ramazan. The richness of the genre as a whole is manifest through the wide array of images detailing entertainments that are rarely recorded in other sources for the period. Nonetheless, here, it is my intention to adopt an alternative approach by analysing how these books were agents of entertainment. In other words, how could the books themselves entertain people? And, in relation to this question, who created the entertainment?
Reading Ottoman costume albums as a form of entertainment is a novel interpretation. These books have predominantly been characterised as objective and realistic in their iconography, encyclopaedic in scope, and didactic in function. Save for passing comments, there has been little discussion of these albums as items designed to entertain. My initial intention, therefore, is to demonstrate through a range of case-studies that Ottoman costume books made by both European and Ottoman artists were, on a fundamental level, created to entertain, and that this is significant in understanding the genre more widely.
Reading Ottoman costume albums as a form of entertainment is a novel interpretation. These books have predominantly been characterised as objective and realistic in their iconography, encyclopaedic in scope, and didactic in function. Save for passing comments, there has been little discussion of these albums as items designed to entertain. My initial intention, therefore, is to demonstrate through a range of case-studies that Ottoman costume books made by both European and Ottoman artists were, on a fundamental level, created to entertain, and that this is significant in understanding the genre more widely.
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Art History, Ottoman History, History of the Book, and 15 moreManuscript Studies, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Book History (History), Entertainment, Visual Arts, Orientalism, Books, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Istanbul, Sanat, and Osmanlı Tarihi
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Visual Studies, and 72 moreArt History, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Early Modern History, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Historiography, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Turkish History, Mediterranean, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Ottoman Turkish, Turkey And Europe, Islam in Turkey, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Historiography, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Islam, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Language, Constantinople, Historia, Orientalism, Merchant networks, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Geschichte, Artes, Historia del Arte, Islamic Manuscripts, Mercantilism, Kunstgeschichte, Travel and travelogues, Sanat, Kunstkammer, Turkish Islamic Arts, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Osmanlı Tarihi, Early Modern European History, Turkish and Islamic Art and History, Travelogues, Kunst, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Literatur und Bildende Kunst, Ottoman Travel Writing, Travelogues on Istanbul and Ottoman Empire, Kunsthistorie, Ottoman travel narratives, Sixteenth-century Costume Books, Costume books, and peter mundy
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 75 moreCultural Studies, European Studies, Classics, Latin Literature, Roman History, English Literature, Art History, Historical Archaeology, Self and Identity, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Italian Studies, Literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Visual Culture, Historiography, Renaissance, Rome, City of, English History, Identity (Culture), English, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), National Identity, Medieval Europe, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Medieval England, Imperial Rome, Medieval Culture, Medieval Italy, Classical Reception Studies, Early Middle Ages (History), Christianity and Rome, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Identity, Italy, Rome, Historia, Literatura, William of Malmesbury, Twelfth-century England, Urbanism of Rome, Ancient Rome, Historia del Arte, Anglo-Norman history, Middle Ages, História, Histoire, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Istorie, Papal History, Classicism, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Anglo-Norman, Historiografia, Anglo-Norman England, Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval England & Ireland & Normandy, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Rome Medieval Topography, Mediaeval History, Roman cultural identity, Mediaeval Literature, Mediaeval Thought, Medieval Popes, Anglo-Norman Studies, History of Popes, and History of Medieval Rome
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 123 moreAesthetics, Visual Studies, Iconography, Print Culture, Tourism Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Ottoman History, European integration, Art, Renaissance History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Cultural Heritage, Italian Studies, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Popular Culture, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Visual Culture, Renaissance, Picture Books, Visual Rhetoric, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Renaissance Art, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, Oral history, Italian art, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Islam in Europe, Italian Cultural Studies, Codicology, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, 16th Century (History), Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Florence, Drawing, History of Art, Literature and Visual Arts, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Islam, Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern Italy, Printing History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Artists' Books, Modern Turkey, Travel Literature, 16th Century Italian Art, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, 16the century Mediterranean, 16th Century Eastern Mediterranean, 17th century Europe, Cultural Exchange, 16th century Europe, Material Culture, Prints and Drawings, Old Master drawings, Constantinople, Fine Arts, Italy, Historia, Orientalism, Books, Travel, Book, Drawings, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Italian, Manuscripts, Artes, Europe, Picturebooks, Historia del Arte, Islamic Manuscripts, Clothing, Fashion,textile and clothing, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Costume history, Iconografia, Cultura, História, Histoire, Historia Cultural, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, The Medici Effect, Florence, Renaissance Florence, History of clothing and fashion, Osmanlı Tarihi, Renaissance Florence, Travel Behavior, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Costume, and Art Appreciation
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Travel Writing, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Mobility/Mobilities, and 15 moreLiterature, Medieval Studies, Medieval Latin Literature, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Petrarch, Travel & Tourism, Medieval Culture, Travel Literature, Mobility, Orientalism, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Mediaeval History, Medieval Travels and Travellers, and Medieval travel literature
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cultural History, Art History, Medieval History, and 26 moreHistory of Religion, Medieval Studies, Early Modern England, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, History of Art, Medieval England, Church History, Early Modern Britain, Early medieval Britain (Archaeology), Medieval Art, Visual Arts, England, Cathedrals (Medieval Studies), Church, Historia, Gothic Cathedral construction, Cathedral archaeology, Cathedrals, Church and State, Cathedral chapters, Gothic cathedrals, Catholic Church History, Great Britain, and Anglo Norman and Angevin England
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Art History, Rhetoric, Medieval Literature, and 20 moreArt, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Visual Rhetoric, Medieval Church History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Medieval France, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Visual Arts, History of architecture, Historia, Gothic architecture, Histoire, Gothic Art, Medieval church architecture, and Gothic architecture, Parisian architecture, medieval construction
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 29 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Design, Ottoman History, Art, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Identity (Culture), Turquerie, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkish History, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Decorative Arts, Early modern Ottoman History, Islamic History, Late Ottoman Period, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Historia, Artes, and 17th and 18th century European Decorative Arts and Design
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, and 42 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, Visual Studies, Art History, Ottoman History, Art, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Gift Exchange, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Islam in Europe, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Islam in Turkey, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Historiography, Ottoman Balkans, Islamic History, Islam, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Visual Arts, Ottoman Military History, Visual and Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Material Culture, Historia, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Cultura Material, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, and Osmanlı Tarihi
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and 32 moreTravel Writing, Medieval Literature, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Middle East Studies, Literature, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, South Asian Studies, Identity (Culture), East Asia, South Asia, Central Asian Studies, Medieval Islam, Southeast Asia, Medieval Women, Culture, Medieval Church History, East Asian Studies, Medieval Europe, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Orientalism in art, Central Asia, Medieval Islamic History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Middle Ages, Sir John Mandeville, MARCO POLO, and Mediaeval History
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, Historical Anthropology, Greek History, and 47 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Art, Fashion Theory, Textiles, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Hellenistic History, History of Costume, History of Textiles, Identity (Culture), Textile Archaeology, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Fashion History, Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, Medieval Europe, Modern Greece, Modern Greek History, History of Art, Textile and Fiber Art, Travel Literature, Visual Arts, Textile Design, Ancient Greece (History), Clothing Culture, Textile Technology, Literature Review, Greece, Book Reviews, Historia, Textile Dyeing, Europe, Clothing, Fashion,textile and clothing, Hellenic Studies, Textile, Byzantine art, History of clothing and fashion, Clothes, Fashion, and Visual Anthropology and Sociology
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 67 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Book History, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Central European history, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Islamic History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Modern Turkey, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Material Culture, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Book Reviews, Historia, Orientalism, Books, Book Review, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Artes, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, História, Histoire, Islamic art and architecture, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Sanat, Osmanlı Tarihi, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire
This exhibition considers two manuscripts – the Freshfield Album and the Dryden Costume Album – which contain drawings of sixteenth-century Constantinople (modern Istanbul). These books testify to the increased contact in this period... more
This exhibition considers two manuscripts – the Freshfield Album and the Dryden Costume Album – which contain drawings of sixteenth-century Constantinople (modern Istanbul). These books testify to the increased contact in this period between Europe and the Ottoman Empire and to the subsequent interest in Ottoman culture. The Freshfield Album focuses upon the architecture and ancient monuments of Constantinople, while the Dryden Album is an example of an Ottoman Costume Album, so called because its drawings depict a diverse collection of peoples from different social classes, ethnic backgrounds and religious persuasions. The European taste for the Orient often veered towards the fantastical, but as these manuscripts show there were also moments of genuine and sensitive enquiry.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Art History, and 32 moreTravel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, History of Costume, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Turkish History, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Islam in Turkey, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Literary Translation, Gender in Translation, East-West Cultural Exchange, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Travelling artists, Ottoman economic, social and military history, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Cultural Exchange, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Costume history, European and Ottoman relations in Early Modern of Europe, European Diplomacy and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire, and Artists’ Books
This essay reviews a major exhibition held in Brussels and Kraków that explores European-Ottoman cultural exchange in the early modern period. This show is notable for its emphasis on Ottoman exchange with Central and Eastern Europe. By... more
This essay reviews a major exhibition held in Brussels and Kraków that explores European-Ottoman cultural exchange in the early modern period. This show is notable for its emphasis on Ottoman exchange with Central and Eastern Europe. By moving beyond Ottoman contact with Venice, this exhibition expands the field of Ottoman-European interaction in new and important ways.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 30 moreArt History, Ottoman History, Art, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Gift Exchange, Identity (Culture), Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Islam, Early Modern Italy, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Visual Arts, Cultural Exchange, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Orientalism, Histoire, and European Diplomacy and Ottoman Empire
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, African Studies, Visual Studies, and 37 moreArt History, Fashion design, Art, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Material Culture Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, African Diaspora Studies, African History, History of West Africa, Africa, Identity (Culture), West Africa, Culture, Fashion History, African Diaspora, History of Art, African Politics, Visual Arts, Africana Studies, Clothing Culture, Historia, Textile Dyeing, Transcultural Studies, Fashion Merchandising, Artes, Clothing, Fashion,textile and clothing, West African History, History of clothing and fashion, Clothes, West African Art, Fashion, Historical Clothing and Textiles, Clothes Making, and Consumption of Wax-Printed Cloth
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 40 moreArt History, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Mediterranean, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Early modern Ottoman History, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Costume (Art History), Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Historia, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Manuscripts, Islamic Manuscripts, Ottoman Diplomacy and Europe, European and Ottoman relations in Early Modern of Europe, European Diplomacy and Ottoman Empire, Osmanlı Tarihi, and Urban Studies: Constantinople/Istanbul
Research Interests: Art History, Ottoman History, Renaissance History, Early Modern Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, and 12 moreHistory of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Ottoman art and architecture, 16th-century European Art, Ottoman, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Early Modern Art, Sanat, Osmanlı Türkçesi, Osmanlı Tarihi, Ottoman Manuscripts, and Osmanlı Sanatı Ve Mimarisi
The longevity, paradoxes, and ambivalence of British relations with Europe in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries coalesce in vivid fashion when examining Anglo-Roman cultural contact. Rome meant many different things to Norman... more
The longevity, paradoxes, and ambivalence of British relations with Europe in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries coalesce in vivid fashion when examining Anglo-Roman cultural contact. Rome meant many different things to Norman England during this period: the city’s ancient heritage was a source of marvel and a touchstone of ancient Latin culture, but it was also inexorably bound to the papal curia – a site of success for some Englishmen but ruin for others. During this period medieval English writers were both the most admiring and the most critical in their responses to ‘Rome’ and Roman identity. In the words of G.B. Parks, this relationship was one of “the most balanced dislike”.
Research Interests: European History, European Studies, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Literature, and 11 moreMedieval Studies, Medieval Europe, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Anglo-Norman history, Medieval Rome, Papal History, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Medieval Britain, Mediaeval History, and Papal Rome
Research Interests: European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Art History, and 15 moreOttoman History, Cultural Heritage, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Culture, Ottoman Studies, Costume and Identity, Ottoman Empire, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, and Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Art History, Ottoman History, and 24 moreArt, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Islamic History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Visual Arts, Clothing Culture, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Clothing, Ottoman Diplomacy and Europe, Fashion,textile and clothing, History of clothing and fashion, Osmanlı Tarihi, and Historical Clothing and Textiles
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 23 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Ottoman History, Art, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory, Identity (Culture), Eastern European history, Mediterranean Studies, History of Museums, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Mediterranean, Ottoman Empire, Language and Identity, Museums and Exhibition Design, Historia, and Museum and Heritage Studies
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 38 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Culture, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, National Identity, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Turkey And Europe, Islamic History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, Material Culture, Identity, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Costumes, Manuscripts, Islamic Manuscripts, Costume history, and Osmanlı Tarihi
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Diplomatic History, Cultural Studies, and 62 moreEuropean Studies, Archaeology, Iconography, Art History, Travel Writing, French History, Ottoman History, Art, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Visual Culture, Painting, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Culture, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Islamic Art, Diplomacy, Travel & Tourism, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Islamic History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Classical Reception Studies, Landscape, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ancient Topography (Archaeology), Cultural Diplomacy, Material Culture, Greece, Historia, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Travel, Histoire de l'art, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Historia del Arte, Athens, Topography of Athens, Islamic art history, Topography, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), História, Histoire, Islamic art and architecture, Sanat, Türk Tarihi, Ancient Athens, Osmanlı Tarihi, Topografia, and Artists’ Books
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 50 moreLatin Literature, Roman History, Visual Studies, Art History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, Rome, City of, Medieval urban history, Identity (Culture), Culture, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Medieval England, Horace, Text And Image, Medieval Art, Visual Arts, Visual and Cultural Studies, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Material Culture, 12th century England, Rome, Historia, Literatura, Medieval Art History, Twelfth-century England, Archeologia medievale, Ancient Rome, Mediaeval Archaeology, Historia del Arte, Anglo-Norman history, John of Salisbury, Medieval Rome, History of Art and Architecture, Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance, História da arte, Eleventh and Twelfth Century Europe, Mediaeval History, Ancient Literature, Art and Art History, Mediaeval Literature, Roman Archaeology, and Henry of Blois
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 65 moreVisual Studies, Print Culture, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Ottoman History, Art, Early Modern History, Middle East Studies, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Material Culture Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Textiles, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Culture, Early Modern England, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Literature, Drawing, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Text And Image, Travel Literature, Visual Arts, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Prints and Drawings, Clothing Culture, Fine Arts, Identity, Historia, Orientalism, Histoire de l'art, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Manuscripts, Artes, Europe, Historia del Arte, Clothing, Fashion,textile and clothing, Histoire, Textile, Historia Cultural, Sanat, History of clothing and fashion, and Fashion
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, and 54 moreEuropean Studies, Historical Anthropology, Visual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Art, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Book History, Literature, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Modern Art, Identity (Culture), Identity politics, World History, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, Turkey, Medieval Europe, Drawing, Turkey And Europe, Narrative and Identity, Islam in Turkey, Islam, Modern Turkey, Book History (History), Travel Literature, Visual Arts, Identity, Historia, Orientalism, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Europe, History of clothing and fashion, Ethnicity and National Identity, Travel Behavior, and Fashion
Research Interests: Religion, History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, and 58 moreClassical Archaeology, Visual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Medieval Literature, Art, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Italian Studies, British History, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Medieval, Rome, City of, Medieval Theology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Medieval Latin Literature, Identity (Culture), Manuscript Studies, Culture, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Culture Studies, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Medieval England, Medieval Architecture, History of Collections, Medieval Culture, Relics (Religion), Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Collecting and Collections, Christianity and Rome, Visual Arts, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), History of Archaeology, Rome, Religious Studies, Historia, Books, Archeologia medievale, Ancient Rome, Manuscripts, Historia del Arte, História, Medieval Rome, Relics, Relics and Relic Veneration, Trafficking of relics, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Roman Archaeology, The Medieval Cult of Relics, City of Rome, and Cult of Relics
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 56 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Ottoman History, Art, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Book History, Renaissance Studies, Visual Culture, Bibliography, Historiography, History of Costume, History of Textiles, Identity (Culture), Culture, Cultural Tourism, Ottoman Studies, Culture Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural Memory, Modern Greece, History of Art, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Historiography (in Art History), Islamic History, Islam, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Modern Turkey, Book History (History), Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Bibliographic Research, Material Culture, Fine Arts, Identity, Greece, Historia, Arte, Historia del Arte, Fashion,textile and clothing, Cultura, História, Historia Cultural, History of Arts, and Art and Art History
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 75 moreAesthetics, Visual Studies, Print Culture, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Translation Studies, Ottoman History, Art, Art Theory, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Picture Books, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Gift Exchange, Identity (Culture), World History, Culture, Early Modern England, Early Modern Europe, Islam in Europe, Cultural Tourism, Codicology, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural Memory, Drawing, Language and Identity, Global History, Turkey And Europe, Islam in Turkey, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Aesthetics and Politics, Art Criticism, Islamic History, Islam, Artists' Books, Modern Turkey, Text And Image, Travel Literature, Visual Arts, Cultural Exchange, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Identity, Historia, Books, Travel, Histoire de l'art, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Europe, Cultura, História, Histoire, Sanat, Architectural Drawing, and Fashion
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, History, European History, Cultural History, and 88 moreCultural Studies, European Studies, Visual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Middle East Studies, History of Religion, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Textiles, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, History of Christianity, Middle East History, History of the Book, Popular Culture, Material culture of religion, Religion and Politics, Visual Culture, Picture Books, Visual Rhetoric, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Identity politics, Manuscript Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Islam in Europe, Religious Conversion, Codicology, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural Memory, Middle Eastern Studies, Language and Identity, History of Art, Turkey And Europe, Islam in Turkey, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Islamic History, Islam, Middle East Politics, Artists' Books, Modern Turkey, Text And Image, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Costume (Art History), Visual Arts, Turkey in World Politics, Cultural Exchange, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Material Culture, Middle East, Identity, Religious Studies, Historia, Books, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Manuscripts, Conversion, Europe, Picturebooks, Historia del Arte, Fashion,textile and clothing, Cultura, História, Histoire, Historia Cultural, History of clothing and fashion, and Osmanlı Tarihi
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 77 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Visual Anthropology, Self and Identity, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Art Theory, Museum Studies, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, History of the Book, Popular Culture, Maritime History, Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Cultural Theory, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Painting, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, Manuscript Studies, Food History, History of Museums, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Islam in Europe, Cultural Tourism, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Islamic Art, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, 16th Century (History), Turkey, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural Memory, Language and Identity, History of Art, Literature and Visual Arts, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Art Criticism, Islamic History, Islam, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Modern Turkey, Text And Image, Travel Literature, Visual Arts, Turkey in World Politics, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Trade, Constantinople, Identity, Historia, Visual Art, Books, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Manuscripts, Europe, Cultura, História, Histoire, Sanat, Osmanlı Tarihi, Historic cities, Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire, and Artists’ Books
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Visual Studies, Print Culture, and 81 moreArt History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Ottoman History, Art, Medieval History, Design History, Women's History, Anatolian Studies, Gender History, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, History of the Book, Postcolonial Studies, Maritime History, International Trade, Visual Culture, Picture Books, Visual Rhetoric, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Gift Exchange, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, World History, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Political History, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Illumination (Manuscripts, Books), Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Literature and Visual Arts, History of the Islamic World, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Artists' Books, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Orientalism in art, Manuscripts & Material Culture, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Material Culture, Constantinople, History of Istanbul, Historia, Orientalism, Visual Art, Books, Oriental Studies, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Manuscripts, Costume history, História, Istanbul, Sanat, Travel and Tourism, Development of Istanbul, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Costume, Fashion, and Urban Studies: Constantinople/Istanbul
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and 84 moreArt History, Visual Anthropology, Travel Writing, Fashion design, Ottoman History, Art, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Cultural Heritage, Gender History, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Material Culture Studies, History of the Book, Medieval Studies, Maritime History, International Trade, Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, Politics, Identity politics, World History, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Political History, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Culture Studies, Fashion History, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Turkish History, Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, National Identity, Mediterranean, 16th Century (History), Ottoman Empire, Global History, Byzantine History, Literature and Visual Arts, Ottoman Turkish, Book Arts, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Turkish Culture, Turkish Foreign Policy, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Costume (Art History), Costume Design, Visual Arts, 16the century Mediterranean, 16th century Europe, Material Culture, Clothing Culture, Identity, History of Istanbul, Historia, Travel, Sanat Tarihi, Tarih, Medieval manuscripts & early printed books; history of libraries; visual arts & digital media, Costumes, Manuscripts, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Istanbul, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, History of clothing and fashion, Development of Istanbul, Sixteenth Century History, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire, Costume, Fashion, and Urban Studies: Constantinople/Istanbul
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Gender Studies, Art History, and 50 moreTravel Writing, Women's Studies, Ottoman History, Art, Women's History, Middle East Studies, Gender History, Book History, Women's travel narratives, Literature, Maritime History, Urban History, History of Costume, Mediterranean Studies, Ottoman Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Costume and Identity, Women, Islamic Art, Turkish History, Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Turkish Culture, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Travel Literature, Costume (Art History), Ottoman art and architecture, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, History of Istanbul, Travel, Seafarers, Port cities, Costume history, Istanbul, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Islands, European travellers and their depictions of the ancient and Islamic history of the Near East, Insularity, Ports, and Trade Routes
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Cultural History, Islamic Law, and 58 moreVisual Studies, English Literature, Art History, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Violence, Literature, Visual Culture, Urban History, Conflict, War Studies, Sexual Violence, Political Violence and Terrorism, History of Political Violence, Ottoman Studies, Travel Behaviour, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Islamic Art, Turkish History, Travel & Tourism, Violence/Power, Political Violence, History of Violence, Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Cultural History of War, Violence Against Women, History of Art, History of the Islamic World, Religion and Violence/Nonviolence, Early modern Ottoman History, Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Balkans, Social History, Islamic History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Gender And Violence, Travel Literature, Ottoman economic, social and military history, War and violence, Ottoman Military History, Ottoman art and architecture, Religion and Violence, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Peacebuilding, Historia, Antropología cultural, Artes, Fifteenth and Sixteenth century culture, Cultura, História, Histoire, Gestion Cultural, Literatures of Voyaging, Discovery, Travel & Colonialism, and Ottoman Turkish historical writing
Ottoman Costume albums are a genre of book that emerged in the mid-sixteenth century; they contained a series of drawings depicting different characters in their respective costumes, which commonly included the sultan and his court,... more
Ottoman Costume albums are a genre of book that emerged in the mid-sixteenth century; they contained a series of drawings depicting different characters in their respective costumes, which commonly included the sultan and his court, Venetian ladies, Greek monks, street beggars and even public executions. In this way the social, religious and ethnic diversity of Ottoman society was succinctly conveyed to a western audience that purchased these books as souvenirs of their travels. In artistic terms these drawings are relatively simple, but they are significant because the figures, costumes and props remained unchanged for centuries to come.
Previous scholars have viewed these albums as straightforwardly accurate depictions of Ottoman culture and society. Indeed, it has been widely argued that these books acted as practical guides for European merchants or as pictorial travelogues. Yet in truth, these albums are more complex and problematic records of travel than previously realised. Drawing upon several recently discovered and miscatalogued albums my paper will demonstrate that these drawings cannot simply reflect the travels or experiences of European visitors since the vast majority of albums contain exactly the same types of characters wearing the same costumes and adopting strikingly similar poses. Thus, what may have once been a genuine scene of Ottoman society swiftly became a stereotyped image produced for a mass audience and divorced of its original context. In this way these albums came to define the expectations, and therefore the experiences, of subsequent travellers in Ottoman Turkey.
Previous scholars have viewed these albums as straightforwardly accurate depictions of Ottoman culture and society. Indeed, it has been widely argued that these books acted as practical guides for European merchants or as pictorial travelogues. Yet in truth, these albums are more complex and problematic records of travel than previously realised. Drawing upon several recently discovered and miscatalogued albums my paper will demonstrate that these drawings cannot simply reflect the travels or experiences of European visitors since the vast majority of albums contain exactly the same types of characters wearing the same costumes and adopting strikingly similar poses. Thus, what may have once been a genuine scene of Ottoman society swiftly became a stereotyped image produced for a mass audience and divorced of its original context. In this way these albums came to define the expectations, and therefore the experiences, of subsequent travellers in Ottoman Turkey.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, European Studies, and 89 moreVisual Studies, Art History, Travel Writing, Ottoman History, Art, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Book History, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Literature, History of the Book, Medieval Studies, Maritime History, Visual Culture, Rare Books and Manuscripts, History of Costume, Identity (Culture), Visual perception, Manuscript Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Culture, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Culture Studies, Turkish and Middle East Studies, 17th-Century Studies, Costume and Identity, Islamic Art, Turkish History, Illumination (Manuscripts, Books), Cultural Identity, Travel & Tourism, Mediterranean, 16th Century (History), Islamic Studies, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Era, History of International Relations, Medieval Europe, History of Art, Literature and Visual Arts, Turkey And Europe, Early modern Ottoman History, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Islamic manuscripts illumination, Mediterranean Studies (Area Studies), History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Text And Image, Book History (History), 16th and 17th c., Travel Literature, 16th Century Italian Art, Costume (Art History), 15th/16th c. German Art, Visual Arts, Ottoman art and architecture, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), 16the century Mediterranean, 16th Century Eastern Mediterranean, 17th century Europe, Cultural Exchange, 16th century Europe, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, 16th-century European Art, Texts and transmission, Clothing Culture, Constantinople, History of Istanbul, Historia, Books, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Travel, Seafarers, Port cities, Historia del Arte, Fashion,textile and clothing, História, Histoire, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Islands, History of clothing and fashion, Insularity, Ports, and Trade Routes
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Art History, Ottoman History, and 15 moreArt, Italian Studies, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of Art, Ottoman Balkans, Italian Renaissance Art, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, 16th Century Italian Art, Ottoman art and architecture, The Medici Effect, Florence, Renaissance Florence, Renaissance Florence, 16th Century Florence, and The Medici family
Research Interests: History, Art History, Travel Writing, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, and 22 moreMedieval Studies, Medieval, Rome, City of, Medieval urban history, Medieval Latin Literature, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), History of Art, Medieval England, Medieval Architecture, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval parody and satire, Satire & Irony, Roman Satire, Humour Studies, and Medieval Rome
Research Interests: History, Latin Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Book History, and 14 moreLiterature, Medieval Studies, Medieval, Medieval English Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Church History, History of Reading and Writing, Medieval Europe, Medieval England, Church History, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), William of Malmesbury, Twelfth-century England, and Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance
Ottoman costume albums were a genre of book that emerged in the late sixteenth century, which sought to convey the whole gamut of Ottoman society in pictorial form. These manuscripts commonly included images of the sultan and his court,... more
Ottoman costume albums were a genre of book that emerged in the late sixteenth century, which sought to convey the whole gamut of Ottoman society in pictorial form. These manuscripts commonly included images of the sultan and his court, Turkish ladies and Venetian girls, Greek monks alongside Turkish imams, Russian merchants and African eunuchs amongst others. The drawings are relatively simple, but they succinctly abbreviated the kaleidoscope of cultures that co-inhabited Constantinople. The earliest albums were produced for European travellers and were made by western artists, but from the beginning of the seventeenth century Ottoman artists began to imitate the iconography of these European images.
In this paper I will focus upon two neglected examples of this genre found in Cambridge and use them to reflect upon European perceptions of the Ottoman world during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. One of the most striking elements of these albums is the continuity of the iconography: the costumes, poses and characters of sixteenth-century albums remained unchanged for centuries. Indeed, even nineteenth-century photographic images of Turkey followed the iconography of the costume album. In this way these manuscripts were souvenirs for early European travellers to Turkey, but they also defined the experiences of subsequent visitors and became stereotypes of the Orient. I will propose that due to these images, and the influence of travel literature, later visitors to Constantinople expected to find these figures and characters regardless of their veracity.
In this paper I will focus upon two neglected examples of this genre found in Cambridge and use them to reflect upon European perceptions of the Ottoman world during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. One of the most striking elements of these albums is the continuity of the iconography: the costumes, poses and characters of sixteenth-century albums remained unchanged for centuries. Indeed, even nineteenth-century photographic images of Turkey followed the iconography of the costume album. In this way these manuscripts were souvenirs for early European travellers to Turkey, but they also defined the experiences of subsequent visitors and became stereotypes of the Orient. I will propose that due to these images, and the influence of travel literature, later visitors to Constantinople expected to find these figures and characters regardless of their veracity.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Art History, and 15 moreOttoman History, Early Modern History, Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Ottoman art and architecture, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Ottoman Diplomacy and Europe, European Diplomacy and Ottoman Empire, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire
Research Interests: History, Art History, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 19 moreRome, City of, Medieval English Literature, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Medieval England, Medieval Architecture, Early Rome, Imperial Rome, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Anglo-Norman Art and Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman history, women and family, monasticism, Anglo-Saxon history, Vikings, Anglo-Norman history, and Anglo Norman and Angevin England
Research Interests: History, European History, Archaeology, Art History, Medieval Literature, and 12 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Church History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Medieval Art, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, History of Archaeology, Anglo-Norman history, Roman Art, and Roman Archaeology
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Research Interests: History, Iconography, Art History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Medieval History, and 22 moreMedieval Studies, Medieval, Renaissance, Theory, Body, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, History of Art, Byzantine Iconography, Relics (Religion), Medieval Art, Russian Art, Roman Art, Byzantine art, Relics and Relic Veneration, Saints, Late antiquty, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Triumph, Art Byzantine, and Cult of Relics
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Research Interests: Philology, History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and 33 moreArt History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Visual Culture, Medieval, Medieval Church History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Byzantine History, Medieval England, Byzantine Iconography, Byzantine Paleography and codicology, Medieval Art, Visual Arts, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Medieval Mediterranean Art, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Medieval Mediterranean, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Travel, Greek manuscripts, Byzantine art, Manuscript studies, codicology, palaeography, medieval paper, Chaucer, circulation of texts and books, history of the book, electronic editing and digital humanities, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Greek Manuscripts (Palaeography, Codicology, Text Transmission), Humanism (15th-17th c.), Medieval and Neolatin Texts, Greek (Byzantine) Texts, and Byzantine Diplomatics (Imperial and Patriarchal Chancellery)
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Medieval Philosophy, Art History, Medieval Literature, and 68 moreTheology, Medieval History, Historical Theology, Medieval French Literature, Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, Medieval, Medievalism, Medieval urban history, Medieval Theology, Medieval English Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Monastic Studies, Medieval Women, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Ecclesiastical History, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Diplomatics (Medieval), Papal Legates, Medieval Europe, Kingship (Medieval History), Medieval England, Medieval France, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Music, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Medieval Canon & Roman Law, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Glastonbury, Medieval Italy, Monasticism, Medieval Art, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, History of Hampshire and Winchester, Chivalry (Medieval Studies), Anglo-Norman literature and culture, History of Monasticism, 13th century England, Archaeology of Medieval Monasteries, 12th century England, Medieval Warfare, Medieval Art History, 12th Century Renaissance, Twelfth-century England, Archeologia medievale, Storia medievale, Medieval Military History, Mediaeval Archaeology, St. Anselm, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman history, women and family, monasticism, Anglo-Saxon history, Vikings, Anglo-Norman history, Medieval Iconography, Historia Medieval, Twelfth-Century 'Renaissance, Cluny, Trade and travel in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, Anglo-Norman England, Anglo Norman and Angevin England, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Mediaeval History, Normandy, and The Norman Conquest
This conference examines the significant topic of papal communication from the perspective of the recipients; it focuses on the diverse responses and receptions to papal communications found across medieval Europe between the years 1000... more
This conference examines the significant topic of papal communication from the perspective of the recipients; it focuses on the diverse responses and receptions to papal communications found across medieval Europe between the years 1000 and 1300.
Themes include the construction and questioning of papal authority, responses to gifts and giving and to rituals and liturgy, sermons and papal letters; encounters in papal assemblies; historical writing in Anglo-Norman England; as well as discussions about the theoretical and methodological framework for studying papal communication in the Middle Ages.
Themes include the construction and questioning of papal authority, responses to gifts and giving and to rituals and liturgy, sermons and papal letters; encounters in papal assemblies; historical writing in Anglo-Norman England; as well as discussions about the theoretical and methodological framework for studying papal communication in the Middle Ages.