The Thousand And One Churches - Couverture rigide

Ramsay, William M.; Bell, Gertrude L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1934536059 ISBN 13 : 9781934536056

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, 2008

Synopsis

Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. Now a new generation of readers can learn of the extensive remains of the sprawling early Christian site known as Binbirkilise ("Thousand and One Churches," near Konya), excavated by Ramsay and Bell in 1907. The book provides extensive analysis of other early Christian and Byzantine sites across Anatolia that Bell visited at that time. Because many of the monuments have long since disappeared, this documentation is now invaluable, and Bell's extensive photographs provide a unique view of travel and archaeology more than a century ago.

For this new edition more than 250 high-quality digitized images from the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University (UK) replace the original illustrations, and the editors' Foreword lays out the historical and cultural context for the undertaking. Ousterhout and Jackson recount the lives and careers of the two authors and the tale of their collaboration on the excavation and subsequent book.

Publication of this volume was supported by a grant from the Joukowsky Family Foundation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Written by two of the most eminent Anatolian experts of the day, this book on church history and architecture in Turkey was first published in 1909. Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939), Scottish classical scholar and archaeologist, and Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), traveller, archaeologist and diplomatist, joined forces for an expedition investigating the Hittite and Byzantine site of Bin-Bir-Kilisse in Turkey in 1907. Bell was successful in establishing the chronology of Byzantine churches, and her findings constitute the middle two parts of the book, on buildings and ecclesiastical architecture. Ramsay contributed the first and last parts, on the historical and geographical details of the churches and an account of other notable monuments in the region. Ramsay was knighted in 1906 and both scholars were honoured by the Royal Geographical Society. In 1913 Bell became one of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1934536059
• ISBN 13: 9781934536056
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 618
• Éditeur: Ousterhout Robert G., Jackson Mark P. C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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