Turkey Archive
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‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013. -
Hard and Soft Power on the Eastern Frontier
Posted on April 7, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper considers historical perspectives on recently discovered archaeological evidence in what was the sixth-century Roman-Persian frontier region. -
Conservation at Ani Cathedral and the Church of the Holy Savior
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsAni, a dramatic, windswept archaeological site in eastern Turkey, was once a thriving medieval city on the trade route through Central Asia. -
“We Have Met Devils!”: The Almogavars of James I and Peter III of Catalonia-Aragon
Posted on December 9, 2012 | No CommentsWho were these Almogavars, who were able to defeat these heavily-armed and highly-trained knights? Why were they consistently effective against all who came before them? How were they utilized by James I the Conqueror (1213-1276) and his son Peter III the Great (1276-1285), count-kings of Catalonia-Aragon, to further the interests of their realm? These are the questions that this paper will attempt to answer. -
What was the British Perception of the Turk between the Fall of Constantinople and the Siege of Vienna?
Posted on October 17, 2012 | No CommentsIn assessing the British perception of the Turk during the halcyon centuries of the Ottoman Empire, it is hard not to drown in a cacophony of opinions. However, it would be simply too convenient to claim that the sources were too contradictory and fluid; the patterns too faint and far between, to construct a decent argument. -
Mandeville’s Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Posted on October 3, 2012 | No CommentsWhile Chaucer‟s knight has traveled to and fought in Spain, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia Minor, Sir John claims to have visited the entire known world from Constantinople and the Holy Land to the farthest reaches of Asia. -
Through the Eyes of a Crusader: An Intensive Study Into the Personal Involvement of Two Men in the Fourth Crusade
Posted on September 21, 2012 | No CommentsWhat was going through the minds ofthese men who were fighting for the cross when they attacked a Christian city, which was one oftheir allies? -
The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study
Posted on September 16, 2012 | No CommentsWhat is this story and why is Egeria reading it at the shrine in Seleukeia? -
In the Lion’s Den: Orthodox Christians under Ottoman Rule, 1400-1550
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsA glance at the Orthodox Christian church under the Ottoman Empire from the early fifteenth to mid sixteenth century gives a revealing glimpse at some of the changing relationships of conquered Christians to the state. -
George Gemistos Plethon on God: Heterodoxy in Defense of Orthodoxy
Posted on September 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe Emperor, John VIII Palaeologos, knew they were going to face some of the finest minds in the Roman Church on their own soil; he therefore wanted the best minds available in support of the Byzantine cause to accompany him. Consequently, the Emperor appointed George Gemistos as part of the delegation. -
The Symbolical Career of Georgios Gemistos Plethon
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsThus Gemistos was the first who in an authoritative way attacked the hegemony of Aristotle in western thought. -
A Spectacle of Great Beauty: The Changing Faces of Hagia Sophia
Posted on August 28, 2012 | No CommentsFor Constantine, Justinian, Sultan Mehmed II, and Atatürk, Hagia Sophia served as a model for the changing political and religious ideals of a nation. To use the useful phrase coined by Linda Young, Hagia Sophia is a building that is “in between heritage.” -
Praising A City: Nicaea, Trebizond, and Thessalonike
Posted on August 26, 2012 | No CommentsPraising A City: Nicaea, Trebizond, and Thessalonike Aslıhan Akışık Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol.36 (2012) Abstract The late Byzantine period(1204-1461) was distinguished by the existence of multiple,competing, and interconnected centers,... -
The Italo-Cretan Religious Painting and The Byzantine-Palaeologan Legacy
Posted on August 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe paper aims to introduce the last significant school of painting, which was nurtured by the Byzantine sources, the so-called Italo-Cretan school, whose presence and influence lasted for more than 300 years. Its works are perceived not just as mere objects of veneration but have also high artistic and marketing value. -
The Question of Trabzon’s Efrenciyan Population: 1486-1583
Posted on July 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe following article examines the 'fate' of the Efrenciyan or foreign residents of the city of Trabzon following the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1461. -
Transylvania in Hungarian History: An Introduction
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No CommentsFrom their Balkan homeland the Vlachs began their migrations north in the thirteenth century, migrations that were accelerated no doubt by the beginning of Ottoman Turkish expansion into the Balkans. -
Braşov (Kronstadt) in the Defence against the Turks (1438–1479)
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No CommentsConfrontation with Ottoman expansion began for Braşov at the end of the 14th century with the treaty with Mircea the Elder in the year 1395 which was part of King Sigismund of Luxembourg’s anti-Ottoman policy and was signed in Braşov. -
The Massacre at Acre–Mark of a Blood-thirsty King?
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe Christian forces in the Holy Land during the mid-to-late-1100s had, for many years, requested assistance to maintain their dwindling and increasingly challenged control in the Holy Land, but no help came. The tenuous rule of Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, in the mid-1180s, led to further internal conflict. -
The Harsh Life on the 15th Century Croatia-Ottoman Empire Military Border: Analyzing and Identifying the Reasons for the Massacre in Cepin
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsTurkish intrusions into what is today the continental part of Croatia began in 1391 and continued throughout the 15th, and the beginning of the 16th century when a large part of continental Croatia was incorporated into the Turkish Empire. -
Tamerlane’s Place of Abode and Activities after Ankara War in Kütahya
Posted on March 4, 2012 | No CommentsTamerlane who won the Ankara war against the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in July 28, 1402 did not immediately left Anatolia and stayed there for approximately one year. He continued his pillage attacks and conquests in various cities of Anatoia during this period. -
Sacred Kingship among the Peoples of the Steppes
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No CommentseurThe vast belt of the Steppes, located between the Hungarian plains and the Great Wall of China, runs along the southern edge of the Eurasian arboreal zone. Starting in the 1st millenium B.C. this region has been inhabited by Iranian, Hunnish, Turkish and Mongol mounted nomads who, at various times, unified a large portion of the Steppes into a single empire. -
Perspectives on the Crusaders’ Armenia: Cilicia from 1071 to 1148
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe vast majority of medieval historians writing on the Middle East have focused on Byzantium, the Crusaders, and the Saracens, but there is an abundance of primary materials on Armenian history -
Image of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsImage of the other as a tool of political legitimation: image of Venice in Renaissance Ragusa Kuncevic, Lovro (Central European University; Institute for Historical Sciences of Croatian Academy of Arts and... -
Byzantine women´s visibility in the arts
Posted on September 3, 2011 | No CommentsByzantine women´s visibility in the arts Piltz, Elisabeth (Uppsala University, Sweden) 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London (2006): Communication (II.5 Secular Space) Abstract The role and status of women in... -
Roger de Flor’s Campaign of 1304 in Western Anatolia: A Reinterpretation
Posted on August 3, 2011 | No CommentsRoger de Flor’s Campaign of 1304 in Western Anatolia: A Reinterpretation By Wiktor Ostasz Paper given at Between Constantines: Representations and Manifestations of an Empire, Oxford Byzantine Society International Graduate...
