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Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century

Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century

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With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies.

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Keywords

  • Anastasis
  • Ancient World
  • Andronikos II Palaiologos
  • Architecture
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Byzantine Iconography
  • Byzantine Liturgy/Rite
  • Co-Habiting religious Sites
  • Constantinople
  • Copies of the mosaics
  • Demostehnes and Aristides
  • Dimitri Ismailovitch
  • Eastern Europe
  • Empires & historical states
  • Europe
  • Geographical Qualifiers
  • Hagia Sophia
  • History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
  • History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
  • Other geographical groupings, oceans & seas
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Ottoman Use
  • Parekklesion/Funeral Chapel
  • Proses
  • Religious buildings
  • The arts
  • Theodor Metochites
  • Tomb
  • turkey

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004679801

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