Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) - Image 1

£141.85

Routledge Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Name: Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 141.7 GBP
Availability: InStock

History

Price History & Forecast

Last 70 days • 70 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £142 (70 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £142 - £142

Price levels: 1 different prices over 70 days

Description

Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman court. Captured in Russia at the age of twelve, she first served the reigning sultan's mother in Istanbul. She gradually rose through the ranks of the Ottoman harem, bore a male child to Sultan Ibrahim, and came to power as a valide sultan, or queen mother, in 1648. It was through her generous patronage of architectural works-including a large mosque, a tomb, a market complex in the city of Istanbul and two fortresses at the entrance to the Dardanelles-that she legitimated her new political authority as a valide and then attempted to support that of her son. Central to this narrative is the question of how architecture was used by an imperial woman of the Ottoman court who, because of customary and religious restrictions, was unable to present her physical self before her subjects' gaze. In lieu of displaying an iconic image of herself, as Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici were able to do, Turhan Sultan expressed her political authority and religious piety through the works of architecture she commissioned. Traditionally historians have portrayed the role of seventeenth-century royal Ottoman women in the politics of the empire as negative and de-stabilizing. But Thys-Senocak, through her examination of these architectural works as concrete expressions of legitimate power and piety, shows the traditional framework to be both sexist and based on an outdated paradigm of decline. Thys-Senocak's research on Hadice Turhan Sultan's two Ottoman fortresses of SeddÃ¼lbahir and Kumkale improves in a significant way our understanding of early modern fortifications in the eastern Mediterranean region and will spark further research on many of the Ottoman fortifications built in the area. Plans and elevations of the fortresses are published and analysed here for the first time. Based on archival research, including letters written by the queen mother, many of which are published here for the first time, and archaeological fieldwork, her work is also informed by recent theoretical debates in the fields of art history, cultural history and gender studies.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0754633101
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 February 2007
Listed Since: 06 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Women who Built the Ottoman World, The: Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan (Library of Ottoman Studies)

Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey, The: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality (Gender and Islam)

IMPERIAL HAREM WOMEN AND SOVEREIGNTY OTTOMAN EMP: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)

The Routledge Intermediate Turkish Reader: Political and Cultural Articles (Routledge Modern Language Readers)

Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey: Centralised Islam for Socio-Economic Control (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul: The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath (Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire)

The Dubious Case of a Failed Coup: Militarism, Masculinities, and 15 July in Turkey

Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)

Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728–1876

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries (Variorum Collected Studies)

The Architecture Heritage of Edirne

House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Turkey Old and New

Politics of Modern Turkey: Critical Issues in Modern Politics

Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Women and Turkish Cinema: Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation (Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media)

Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience (Library of Modern Turkey)

Ottoman Baroque – The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth–Century Istanbul

The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the making of urban modernity: 14 (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)

Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone

The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey (Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey)

Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices (Visual and Media Histories)

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe: 7 (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World)

The Youth of Early Modern Women - Amsterdam University Press