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20: - Encountering and Inventing Constantinople in Early Modern Europe

from Part V - Encountering Constantinople

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Sean Roberts
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 20, “Encountering and Inventing Constantinople in Early Modern Europe,” discusses the idea of Constantinople in medieval and early modern Europe, and the lure it held for early modern antiquarians. It examines the nature of the city these scholars imagined against the reality of the city they found.

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antiquariansRenaissancemap-making.
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 324 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Clark, L. R. and Um, N., “The Art of Embassy: Situating Objects and Images in the Early Modern Diplomatic Encounter,” Journal of Early Modern History 20 (2016): 2–18.Google Scholar
Buondelmonti, C., Cristoforo Buondelmonti: Description of the Aegean and Other Islands, ed. and trans. Edson, E (New York, 2018).Google Scholar
Fischer, E. H., Melchior Lorck, 4 vols. (Copenhagen, 2009–2015).Google Scholar
Gilles, P. Pierre Gilles’ Constantinople: A Modern English Translation with Commentary, ed. and trans. Byrd, K (New York, 2009).Google Scholar
Hetherington, P. “Vecchi e non antichi: Differing Responses to Byzantine Culture in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany,” Rinascimento 32 (1992): 203–11.Google Scholar
Kafescioğlu, Ç., Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (University Park, 2009).Google Scholar
Maier, J., Rome Measured and Imagined (Chicago, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Necipoğlu, G., “Visual Cosmopolitanism and Creative Translation: Artistic Conversations with Renaissance Italy in Mehmed II’s Constantinople,” Muqarnas 29 (2012): 1–81.Google Scholar
Nelson, R., “Byzantium and the Rebirth of Art and Learning in Italy and France,” in Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. Evans, H. (New York, 2004): 515–44.Google Scholar
Roberts, S., Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography (Cambridge, MA, 2013).Google Scholar

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