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Assesses and analyses medieval Anatolia from the perspectives of architecture, landscape and urban spaceAnatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. 312 pages. 75 livres sterling.Table des matièresIntroduction – Space and Place: Applications to Medieval Anatolia, Patricia Blessing and Rachel GoshgarianPart I. Building: Masons and InfrastructureChapter 2. Craftsmen in Medieval Anatolia: Methods and Mobility, Richard McClaryChapter 3. Stones for Travelers: Notes on the Masonry of Seljuk Road Caravanserais, Cinzia TavernariPart II. Social Groups: Akhis and FutuwwaChapter 4. Suggestions on the Social Meaning, Structure and Functions of Akhi Communities and their Hospices in Medieval Anatolia, İklil SelçukChapter 5. Social Graces and Urban Spaces: Brotherhood and the Ambiguities of Masculinity and Religious Practice in Late Medieval Anatolia, Rachel GoshgarianPart III. Exchange: Islamic and Christian ArchitectureChapter 6. Transformation of the ‘Sacred’ Image of a Byzantine Cappadocian Settlement, Fatma Gül ÖztürkChapter 7. The ‘Islamicness’ of Some Decorative Patterns in the Church of Tigran Honents in Ani, Mattia GuidettiPart IV. Frameworks: Language, Geography and IdentityChapter 8. Harvesting Garden Semantics in Late Medieval Anatolia, Nicolas TrépanierChapter 9. All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? The Contemporaries of Early Ottoman Architecture in Eastern Anatolia, Patricia BlessingChapter 10. The ‘Dual Identity’ of Mahperi Khatun: Piety, Patronage and Marriage across Frontiers in Seljuk Anatolia, Suzan YalmanNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex