Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia
Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia

Author: Elena Drăghici-Vasilescu

Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA

Published: 2024-08-28

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1649979592

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The focus of the book is a particular region of the Byzantine Empire, Cappadocia, within Anatolia, in the centre of what is now Turkey. Its history as a part of this confederation of territories coincides with the medieval period in Europe. This monograph deals with various aspects of the province; it begins with its environment and climate, goes to some of its institutions and buildings, and ends with the paintings which the art-ists employed to decorate the latter, as well as with a particular type of inscriptions (those along the frontiers). It also considers education in Cappadocia during the Byzantines. The study is a scholarly/professional work that draws on the author's current research as well as on the material which the author developed in the last four years while teaching for the University of Ox-ford.

Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia

Author: Eric. Cooper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1137029641

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This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.

Visualizing Community
Visualizing Community

Author: Robert G. Ousterhout

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780884024132

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Cappadocia is unrivaled in its preservation of the physical remains of the Byzantine Empire: churches, towns and villages, agricultural installations, storage facilities, and other examples of non-ecclesiastical architecture. Visualizing Community offers a critical reassessment of the historiography of Byzantine Cappadocia.

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

Author: Robert G. Ousterhout

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780884023104

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Based on four seasons of fieldwork, this book presents the results of the first systematic site survey of a region rich in material remains. From architecture to fresco painting, Cappadocia represents a previously untapped resource for the study of material culture and the settings of daily life within the Byzantine Empire.

Painting in Cappadocia
Painting in Cappadocia

Author: Cecily Jane Hennessy

Publisher: Cecily Hennessy Publications

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9780957662803

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Art historian, Cecily Hennessy, explores medieval Byzantine wall paintings in churches cut out of the beautiful landscape of central Turkey. Many of these were decorated by local artists, sometimes monks, or by the finest artists brought from other centres, such as Constantinople. This book is designed for both intrigued visitors and for those looking for art-historical information and understanding. It serves as a travel guide to the most important painted churches with numerous colour illustrations, plans and maps. It also encourages close examination of the painting, its meaning and its style and execution and provides background knowledge of Byzantine artistic and cultural practice.

Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia
Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia

Author: Lyn Rodley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780521154772

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This is a fully illustrated account of the rock-cut monasteries, hermitages and other complexes in Cappadocia, Turkey.

Eastern Medieval Architecture
Eastern Medieval Architecture

Author: Robert Ousterhout

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0190058404

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The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

Tokalı Kilise
Tokalı Kilise

Author: Annabel Jane Wharton

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780884021452

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Tokali Kilise (Buckle Church) was the principal sanctuary of a large monastic center in Byzantine Cappadocia, now central Turkey. This cave church was carved into the soft volcanic stone of the region and decorated with frescoes in several stages between the mid-ninth and mid-tenth centuries, and is one of the richest ensembles of painting to survive from the early Middle Ages.