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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNIstanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans.
Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor; the funeral of a sultan; the triumphal entry of Mehmet the Conqueror; the building of the Süleymaniye, the most magnificent of the city's moques; and the death of Atatürk in 1938.
It also describes the rampant sexual exploits of the Byzantine empress-to-be Theodora; the public execution of a Turkish wife and her young, Christian lover; the near execution of an envoy given the unenviable task of transporting a large organ from England to Constantinople in 1599, a gift from Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III, who was caught admiring the sultan's personal harem; and the unfortunate Frenchman caught drinking wine and eating a pork sausage while sketching in Hagia Sophia in the 1680s.
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. ISTANBUL: A TRAVELLER'S READER is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans. Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor; the funeral of a sultan; the triumphal entry of Mehmet the Conqueror; the building of the Suleymaniye, the most magnificent of the city's mosques; and the death of Ataturk in 1938. It also describes the rampant sexual exploits of the Byzantine empress-to-be Theodora; the public execution of a Turkish wife and her young, Christian lover; the near execution of an envoy given the unenviable task of transporting a large organ from England to Constantinople in 1599, a gift from Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III, who was caught admiring the sultan's personal harem; and the unfortunate Frenchman caught drinking wine and eating a pork sausage while sketching in Hagia Sophia in the 1680s. An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Istanbul, that exotic city where East meets West, in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781472137166
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Description du livre Etat : New. An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Istanbul, that exotic city where East meets West, in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 x 8pp plate sections. BIC Classification: 1DVT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 210 x 29. Weight in Grams: 364. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur KSG0016283
Description du livre Etat : New. An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Istanbul, that exotic city where East meets West, in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 x 8pp plate sections. BIC Classification: 1DVT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 210 x 29. Weight in Grams: 364. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . N° de réf. du vendeur KSG0016283
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