Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500

Patricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Art History at Pomona College. She completed her PhD in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in 2012 and is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330 ( 2014). Rachel Goshgarian is Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College. She is co-author of the first Armenian grammar published in Turkey in over 100 years, Kendi Kendine Ermenice, with Sukru Ilicak (2006).

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgementsForeword, Scott RedfordIntroduction – Space and Place: Applications to Medieval Anatolia, Patricia Blessing and Rachel GoshgarianPart I. Building: Masons and InfrastructureChapter 2. Craftsmen in Medieval Anatolia: Methods and Mobility, Richard McClaryChapter 3. Stones for Travelers: Notes on the Masonry of Seljuk Road Caravanserais, Cinzia TavernariPart II. Social Groups: Akhis and FutuwwaChapter 4. Suggestions on the Social Meaning, Structure and Functions of Akhi Communities and their Hospices in Medieval Anatolia, İklil SelçukChapter 5. Social Graces and Urban Spaces: Brotherhood and the Ambiguities of Masculinity and Religious Practice in Late Medieval Anatolia, Rachel GoshgarianPart III. Exchange: Islamic and Christian ArchitectureChapter 6. Transformation of the ‘Sacred’ Image of a Byzantine Cappadocian Settlement, Fatma Gül ÖztürkChapter 7. The ‘Islamicness’ of Some Decorative Patterns in the Church of Tigran Honents in Ani, Mattia GuidettiPart IV. Frameworks: Language, Geography and IdentityChapter 8. Harvesting Garden Semantics in Late Medieval Anatolia, Nicolas TrépanierChapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? The Contemporaries of Early Ottoman Architecture in Eastern Anatolia, Patricia BlessingChapter 10. The ‘Dual Identity’ of Mahperi Khatun: Piety, Patronage and Marriage across Frontiers in Seljuk Anatolia, Suzan YalmanNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Medieval Anatolia comprised a complex landscape of regional, cultural, linguistic and religious variety. These essays explore a dynamic range of interactions, overlaps and exchanges, employing a rich body of art historical, literary and historical sources to cross disciplinary boundaries. They provide lively but nuanced insights that open up a connected world that is too often presented in fragmentary form.