| MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD) | |||||
| PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| ARC5427 | Selected Periods in Architectural History | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
| Language of instruction: | En |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SUNA ÇAĞAPTAY |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor AHMET SEZGİN Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SUNA ÇAĞAPTAY Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖKSUN AKYÜREK ALTÜRK |
| Course Objectives: | In his path-breaking 1978 work, Orientalism, Edward Said argued that the categories of East and West are ideological and conceptual constructions that exist only in relation to each other. In following Said’s basic premise, this course will focus on moments, monuments, and objects of artistic encounter in the medieval Mediterranean in which the contours of East and West are fluid and unstable. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; In this course, students will sharpen their skills at reading history by comparing texts against a society’s archaeological and artistic legacy. In other words, while investigating modes of cultural encounter among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean region, we will bring insights to bear on the study of material culture and texts, as well as architectural and other artistic monuments. Students will be called upon to use a wide range of sources effectively and exhibit critical awareness of the historiographical issues and current scholarly debate in the field. This course, therefore, does not focus on Islamic art, Christian art, or Jewish art per se but on the visual cultures of convergence and the new visual forms produced by the encounter among those cultures. Broad questions we will explore include: When cultures meet, what new cultural (artistic, visual, and literary) forms emerge? How do we speak of these new forms? Are “hybridity” and “indigeneity” sufficient conceptual categories for explaining the nature of cultural encounters? |
| Week I: Introduction Week II: Overview The Mediterranean, historiographical issues, periodization, historical outline and geography and the concepts of East and West. Readings: Dede F. Ruggles and Robert Ousterhout, Gesta, special issue, "Encounters with Islam: The Medieval Mediterranean Experience," vol. 43/2. Introduction Week III Jerusalem- An Empty Space, Full of Memories Key Monument: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Key Text: Poetry from Al-Walid and His Friends from Robert Hamilton, Al- Walid and His Friends. (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 1985) Readings: Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World (Boston, 2002), pp. 17-24. Nasser Rabbat, “The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock,” Muqarnas 6 (1990): 12-18. Week IV: Spain and the Iberian Peninsula I “The Ornament of the World”: Culture of Tolerance, Golden Age of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Key Image: The Great Mosque of Cordoba Key Text: Hroswitha’s Description of Cordoba in the Tenth century Readings: Jerilynn Dodds, “The Great Mosque of Cordoba,” in Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, Jerilynn Dodds ed. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), pp. 11-25. D. Fairchild Ruggles, “Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34/1 2004, pp. 65-94. Week V: Spain and the Iberian Peninsula II Three Faiths and One Land: Mudejar and Beyond Key Image: The Synagogue in Cordoba and the Beatus Manuscript Key Text: Alvarus’ Speech Readings: Jerrilynn D. Dodds, "Mudéjar Tradition and the Synagogues of Medieval Spain: Cultural Identity and Cultural Hegemony," in Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain, V. Mann, T. Glick and J. Dodds ed. (New York, 1992), pp. 113-131. D. Fairchild Ruggles, Representation and Identity in Medieval Spain: Beatus Manuscripts and the Mudejar Churches of Teruel." In Languages of Power in Islamic Spain, R. Brann ed. (Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, 1997 no. 3): pp. 77-106. Week VI: Southern Italy and Norman Sicily: Builders, Patrons, and Identity Key Images: The Mantle of Roger II and the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina Key Text: The Description of the Cappella Palatina by Philagathos of Kerameus in Ernst J. Grube and Jeremy Johns, Painted Ceilings of the Capella Palatina (New York, 2005): pp. 13-14. Readings: William Tronzo, “The medieval object-enigma, and the problem of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo,” Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World, Eva Hoffman ed., (Blackwell, 2007): 367-387. D. Fairchild Ruggles. The Dual Heritage of Sicilian Monuments." The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus, Rosa M. Menocal et al, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 373-374. Week VII: The Holy Land: Cross-Culturalism and the Crusades Key Images: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Baptistery of St. Louis and the Freer Canteen Key Text: Jacques of Vitry, Letters from Acre, trans. R.B.C. Huygens (Brill, 1960): 83-87. Readings: Scott Redford, “On Sâqıs and Ceramics: Systems of Representation in the Northeast Mediterranean,” France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the end of the Crusades, D. Weiss and L. Mahoney ed. (Johns Hopkins, 2004), pp. 282-312. Eva Hoffman, “Christian-Islamic Encounters on Thirteenth-Century Ayyubid Metalwork: Local Culture, Authenticity, and Memory,” Gesta 43/2: 129-142. Week VIII: Greece Uneasy Bedfellows: Local Greeks, Jews, and Latin Crusaders- Building Identity, Legitimacy, and Acculturation Key Image: Frescoes of the Mavriotissa Monastery near Kastoria Key Text: Saint John Chrysostomos, Eight Homilies against the Jews Readings: Monika Hirschbichler, “The Crusade Paintings in the Frankish Gate at Nauplia, Greece: A Historical Construct in the Latin Principality of Morea,” Gesta 2005 44/1: 13-30. Annabel Jane Wharton, “Frescoes of the Mavriotissa Monastery near Kastoria: Evidence of Millenarianism and Anti-Semitism in the Wake of the First Crusade,” Gesta 21 (1982): pp. 21-29. Week IX: Cyprus Cyprus is not France: Fluid Identities and Correlative Spaces in Lusignan Cyprus Key Images: Melusine from the Saint Catherine Cathedral and the Cloister of Bellapais Monastery Key Text: Melusine, compiled by Jean D’Arras(1382-1394). A.K. Donald ed. (Trench and Trubner, 1895). Readings: Anne Marie Weyl Carr, "Correlative Spaces: Art, Identity and Appropriation in Lusignan Cyprus." Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 14/15 (1998/1999): 59-80. Robert G. Ousterhout, “French Connection? Construction of Vaults and Cultural Identity in Crusader Architecture.” In France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the end of the Crusades, D. Weiss and L. Mahoney ed. (Johns Hopkins, 2004), pp. 77-98 Week X: Constantinople Before and After the Fourth Crusade: Diplomacy by Design Key Images: Seljuq glazed tiles and stucco fragments from Konya Key Texts: al-Harawi, Guide des lieux de pelerinage, tr. J. Sourdel-Thomine 1957, pp. 128 and N. Mesarites, Die Palastrevolution, on Manuel I’s palace. Readings: J. Henderson and M. Mundell Mango, "Glass at Medieval Constantinople: Preliminary Scientific Evidence," in Constantinople and Its Hinterland, ed. Cyril Mango and Gilbert Dagron (Aldershot, 1995), pp. 333-56. Paul Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. (Oxford 1993) (skim selectively) A. Walker, “Meaningful Mingling: Classicizing Imagery and Islamicizing Script in a Byzantine Bowl,” Art Bulletin 90/1 2008: 32-53. Week XI: Asia Minor Part 1 Between the Armenian Kingdom and the Seljuqs of Rum: Paths of Image, Identity, and Kingship Key Image: The Palace at Nymphaion in Smyrna Key Text: Al-Aflaki’s work on Djalal-al-Din Rumi, Les saints des derviches tourneurs, 2 Vols. Paris, 1918-1920: 208. Readings: Scott Redford, “ ‘Byzantium and the Islamic World, 1261-1557’ Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557, H. Evans ed. (New York, 2004), pp. 389-415. Suna Çağaptay, “How Western Is It? The Palace at Nymphaion and its Architectural Setting,” Proceedings of the International Sevgi Gönül Memorial Symposium on Byzantine Studies. Sarah Ethel Wolper, “Khidr, Elwan Celebi and the Conversion of Sacred Sanctuaries in Anatolia,” The Muslim World 90 (2000): 309-322. Week XII: Armenia and Georgia Between Byzantium and Islam: Accommodation and Adaptation of Iconography and Ideology Key Image: The Church of Agh’Tamar Key Text: Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah, pp.50. Readings: Christina Maranci, “The Architect Trdat: Building Practices and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Byzantium and Armenia," Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians, September (2003): 294-305. Lynn Jones, “‘Abbasid Suzerainty in the Medieval Caucasus: Appropriation and Adaptation of Iconography and Ideology,” Gesta 43/2: 143-149. Week XIII: Asia Minor Part 2 Asia Minor’s Second Rendezvous with Islam: The Emirates and The Rise of the Ottomans Suna Çağaptay, “Architectural Patronage and the Rise of the Ottomans,” The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, ed. Gülru Necipoğlu and F. Barry Flood (Blackwell, forthcoming December 2014). Suna Çağaptay, “Frontierscape: Reconsidering Bithynian Structures and Their Builders on the Byzantine-Ottoman Cusp” Muqarnas (28) 2011: 156-191. WeeK XIV: Students’ Presentations |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| Course Notes: | Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Blackwell, 2000). David Abulafia, (ed.), The Mediterranean in History (Oxford, 2003) Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. (UCLA, 1995) W. V. Harris (ed.), Re-thinking the Mediterranean. (Oxford, 2005). Thomas Madden, Crusades: The Illustrated History. (University of Michigan Press, 2005) |
| References: | Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Blackwell, 2000). David Abulafia, (ed.), The Mediterranean in History (Oxford, 2003) Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. (UCLA, 1995) W. V. Harris (ed.), Re-thinking the Mediterranean. (Oxford, 2005). Thomas Madden, Crusades: The Illustrated History. (University of Michigan Press, 2005) |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 1 | % 30 |
| Laboratory | 0 | % 0 |
| Application | 0 | % 0 |
| Field Work | 0 | % 0 |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | % 0 |
| Quizzes | 0 | % 0 |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | % 50 |
| Presentation | 1 | % 20 |
| Project | 0 | % 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | % 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | % 0 |
| Preliminary Jury | 0 | % 0 |
| Final | 0 | % 0 |
| Paper Submission | 0 | % 0 |
| Jury | 0 | % 0 |
| Bütünleme | % 0 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 0 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Preliminary Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Paper Submission | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 188 | ||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |