- History, Late Byzantine history, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire, Byzantine Hagiography, Religion and Popular Culture, and 49 moreReligion and Social Change, Mediterranean Studies, Identity (Culture), Narrative and Identity, Social Identity, Constantinople, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam, History of the Mediterranean, Cross-Cultural Studies, Early Ottoman History, Byzantine History, Daily Life in Byzantium, Sensory Ethnography, Byzantine Empire, Identity and Alterity In Byzantine Culture, Forms of Otherness, Cultural Studies, Byzantium in Turkish Popular Culture, Byzantine neo-martyrs, Byzantine Literature, Byzantine historiography, Byzantine Studies, Muslim-Christian Relation, Frontier Studies, Medieval urban history, Historical Geography, Anthropology of the Senses, Byzantium and Islam, BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST, Byzantine Diplomacy, Hagiography, Sufism, Medieval Islamic and Turco-Iranian world, Mongol world empire, Seljuk, Mongol, post-Mongol, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500), Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture, Persian and Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Cooking and Food Preparation (archaeology), Medieval Manuscripts; Food History; Medieval Medicine, Medieval History; Food Studies, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, medieval, and renaissance pharmacy and medicine, Byzantine Medicine, Ottoman History Of Medicine, From Byzantium to Baghdad, physicians and medical texts, Constructions of gender and sexuality in medieval culture, e.g. the concept of the knightly maiden, through exchanges of tokens of love or clothes, Medieval sexuality, Byzantine gender, and Gender and Sexualityedit
Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups... more
Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups into the territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the eleventh century, through intersecting stories transmitted in Turkish Muslim warrior epics and dervish vitas, and late Byzantine martyria. It examines the Byzantines’ encounters with the newcomers in a shared story-world, here called “land of Rome,” as well as its perception, changing geopolitical and cultural frontiers, and in relation to these changes, the shifts in identity of the people inhabiting this space. The study highlights the complex relationship between the character of specific places and the cultural identities of the people who inhabited them.
ISBN: 978-90-04-41584-3
ISBN: 978-90-04-41584-3
Research Interests: Geography, Space and Place, Identity (Culture), Storytelling, Turkish and Middle East Studies, and 10 moreByzantine Studies, Romans, Byzantine Hagiography, Borders and Frontiers, Late Medieval Anatolia, Medieval Epics, Storyworlds, Perception of the "Other": Byzantines and Latins, Hagiography of the Late Byzantine Period (1204-1453)., and Seljuk, Mongol, post-Mongol, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500)
To retrace the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey, which has its roots in the late 19th century, and to display the current state of the discipline, including its deficiencies, opportunities, and tasks for the scientific... more
To retrace the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey, which has its roots in the late 19th century, and to display the current state of the discipline, including its deficiencies, opportunities, and tasks for the scientific community, the Turkish Organizing Committee for the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies 2021-Istanbul (ICBS 2021-Istanbul) initiated a bibliography project, “Byzantine Studies in Turkey. A Bibliography (19th Century–2020),” which is financed by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, the main sponsor of ICBS 2021-Istanbul. Although the congress was postponed to 2022 and took place in Venice/Padua, the ICBS 2021 Executive Committee and the Vehbi Koç Foundation decided to continue with the project, which consists of a printed book and an updatable and downloadable digital database. Şahin Kılıç has been responsible for the collection and preparation of the digital database since June 2018. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı coordinated and co-edited the printed book. Academic monographs, collected editions, some popular books (especially through the 1960s), scholarly articles, as well adaptions for a public audience in prestigious popular journals, encyclopedia entries, conference/congress/symposium papers (except abstracts), selected undergraduate theses (before 1980s), master theses, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of Byzantine history, archaeology, history of art, history of architecture, cultural history, philology, urban history, and other sub-disciplines written since the late 19th century until December 2020, as well as archaeological excavation reports, are included in the printed book. Each entry with a Turkish title is provided with an English translation so that non-Turkish-speaking international scholars are able to find themes and works related to their own scholarly interests. The two-volume book was published in 2021. The digital database will be available on the website of Koç University-GABAM in 2023. PLEASE SEND ANY CORRECTIONS; AMENDMENTS OR NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR THE DIGITAL DATABASE TO mozkilic@ku.edu.tr
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Film, television, and literature as cultural forms of history and memory are influential in creating and sustaining historical imaginations. In Turkey, historical imagination surrounding Byzantium and the Byzantines has been shaped... more
Film, television, and literature as cultural forms of history and memory are influential in creating and sustaining historical imaginations. In Turkey, historical imagination surrounding Byzantium and the Byzantines has been shaped through popular historical novels, comic series, and superhero films. The Byzantine representation in Turkish popular culture has been heavily influenced by the political discourses in Turkey especially related with the national identity. This paper attempts to analyze the representations of Byzantium and the Byzantines in popular Turkish historical novels from the early Republican era and in the 1970’s movies while giving a short prospect to the forthcoming years along with the political narratives.
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"24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 23-28 August 2021, İstanbul (ICBS 2021," The reasons why it did not, and why it could not take place in Istanbul. An Interview with Melek Delilbaşı by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı. When the 24th... more
"24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 23-28 August 2021, İstanbul (ICBS 2021," The reasons why it did not, and why it could not take place in Istanbul. An Interview with Melek Delilbaşı by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı.
When the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, which was initially to take place in Istanbul in 2021, was postponed and moved to Venice and Padua, there were objections and questions raised especially by the Turkish Byzantinists to learn the reasons behind this decision. Melek Delilbaşı, as the president of the Turkish National Committee of Byzantine Studies and of the Turkish Organizing Committee, did not make any official declaration at the time. She, however, wanted to give explanations in an interview, preferring it to be published after the Congress in Venice/Padua. The interview, was completed in June 2022.
When the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, which was initially to take place in Istanbul in 2021, was postponed and moved to Venice and Padua, there were objections and questions raised especially by the Turkish Byzantinists to learn the reasons behind this decision. Melek Delilbaşı, as the president of the Turkish National Committee of Byzantine Studies and of the Turkish Organizing Committee, did not make any official declaration at the time. She, however, wanted to give explanations in an interview, preferring it to be published after the Congress in Venice/Padua. The interview, was completed in June 2022.
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In Memoriam: Melek Delilbaşı. The Byzantine Studies in Turkey. Prof. Melek Delilbaşı passed away on 25 September 2022. In her memory, Nevra Necipoğlu and Buket Kitapçı Bayrı prepared a special dossier for the Toplumsal Tarih journal,... more
In Memoriam: Melek Delilbaşı. The Byzantine Studies in Turkey.
Prof. Melek Delilbaşı passed away on 25 September 2022. In her memory, Nevra Necipoğlu and Buket Kitapçı Bayrı prepared a special dossier for the Toplumsal Tarih journal, December 2022 issue. In it, her son Çağrı Delilbaşı and her former students Murat Keçiş, Ayşegül and Şahin Kılıç, and Hatice Oruç shared their memories of her. Brigitte Pitarakis analyzed Byzantine studies in Turkey from the 19th century until 1955. Based on the project, “Bibliography of Byzantine Studies in Turkey,” conducted in parallel with ICBS 2021-Istanbul, Şahin Kılıç retraced the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey from 1955 until the present day. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı wrote about the 10th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Istanbul, 1955), which constitutes an important milestone in the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey.
When the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, which was initially to take place in Istanbul in 2021, was postponed and moved to Venice and Padua, there were objections and questions raised especially by the Turkish Byzantinists to learn the reasons behind this decision. Melek Delilbaşı, as the president of the Turkish National Committee of Byzantine Studies and of the Turkish Organizing Committee, did not make any official declaration at the time. She, however, wanted to give explanations in an interview, preferring it to be published after the Congress in Venice/Padua. The interview, which was completed in June 2022, is also included in the dossier. Finally, the last article contains the observations of a Turkish PhD student, Meriç Öztürk, on ICBS 2022-Venice/Padua.
Prof. Melek Delilbaşı passed away on 25 September 2022. In her memory, Nevra Necipoğlu and Buket Kitapçı Bayrı prepared a special dossier for the Toplumsal Tarih journal, December 2022 issue. In it, her son Çağrı Delilbaşı and her former students Murat Keçiş, Ayşegül and Şahin Kılıç, and Hatice Oruç shared their memories of her. Brigitte Pitarakis analyzed Byzantine studies in Turkey from the 19th century until 1955. Based on the project, “Bibliography of Byzantine Studies in Turkey,” conducted in parallel with ICBS 2021-Istanbul, Şahin Kılıç retraced the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey from 1955 until the present day. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı wrote about the 10th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Istanbul, 1955), which constitutes an important milestone in the development of Byzantine studies in Turkey.
When the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, which was initially to take place in Istanbul in 2021, was postponed and moved to Venice and Padua, there were objections and questions raised especially by the Turkish Byzantinists to learn the reasons behind this decision. Melek Delilbaşı, as the president of the Turkish National Committee of Byzantine Studies and of the Turkish Organizing Committee, did not make any official declaration at the time. She, however, wanted to give explanations in an interview, preferring it to be published after the Congress in Venice/Padua. The interview, which was completed in June 2022, is also included in the dossier. Finally, the last article contains the observations of a Turkish PhD student, Meriç Öztürk, on ICBS 2022-Venice/Padua.
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Food, Feast, Fast and the Byzantine Other (13th-15th Centuries)
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The paper is a diachronic analysis of place-making stories involving the foundation narratives of the same physical space: Imperial Roman and Byzantine Adrianople and Ottoman Edirne. It draws attention on the varying ways different... more
The paper is a diachronic analysis of place-making stories involving the foundation narratives of the same physical space: Imperial Roman and Byzantine Adrianople and Ottoman Edirne. It draws attention on the varying ways different cultural groups from the same city construe the meaning of a place in contesting it and on the social and political processes whereby a relationship to a place is established, reproduced and transformed. It attempts to explore the production of difference within common, shared, and connected spaces. Numerous studies have considered the urban transformation of Byzantine Adrianople into Ottoman Edirne, but the examination here is the first to analyze perceptions of the city as told through the founding stories by cultural groups that have shared the space.
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Between the 8th century BC and 6th century BC, the Greek communities left the Greek mainland and founded cities over a vast geography extending from the Black Sea to Spain. During the Archaic (BC 640-480), Classical (BC 480-323) and... more
Between the 8th century BC and 6th century BC, the Greek communities left the Greek mainland and founded cities over a vast geography extending from the Black Sea to Spain. During the Archaic (BC 640-480), Classical (BC 480-323) and Hellenistic (BC 323- 31) periods, the Greek city-states made use of city foundation stories (ktisis) as a medium for creating an honorable identity for their cities. In the narratives, the founders of these cities (oikistes) are sometimes the first historical founder(s), or someone who rebuilt the city after natural disasters or negligence, or someone who changed the urban structure, or improved or changed the infrastructure or its demography. The most distinguished founders in these stories are the gods and goddesses who found a city and endow its independence. The foundation stories are most keen on narrating the role of these deities in the foundation of the cities. In the hierarchical order of the founding “fathers” the mythological characters who left the Hellenic/Greek mainland to found a Greek polis in other parts of the World, came after the gods and goddesses.
During the Roman imperial period, the philhellene Roman emperors, who showed particular interest in Classical Greece, including in its language, its literary models and noble origins (eugeneia) of the cities, made use of the city foundation stories in order to politically and culturally integrate the eastern Roman cities within the Roman imperial world. Especially from Augustus (r. BC 27-14) until the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235), the emperors were declared as the founder (ktistes) of cities, thus bestowing cities honor and certain privileges. More generally in the East, the policies of Augustus and Hadrianus (r. AD 117-138) aimed at instituting local rights and privileges accounted for their frequently being designated city founders. There exists an imperial Roman foundation story of Hadrianople/Adrianople, modern city of Edirne, which lies 230 km northwest of Istanbul. This imperial Roman foundation story is then retold in three 10th-century Byzantine chronicles and then in a 14th-century Byzantine martyrdom story. The article focuses on these imperial Roman and Byzantine foundation stories.
During the Roman imperial period, the philhellene Roman emperors, who showed particular interest in Classical Greece, including in its language, its literary models and noble origins (eugeneia) of the cities, made use of the city foundation stories in order to politically and culturally integrate the eastern Roman cities within the Roman imperial world. Especially from Augustus (r. BC 27-14) until the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235), the emperors were declared as the founder (ktistes) of cities, thus bestowing cities honor and certain privileges. More generally in the East, the policies of Augustus and Hadrianus (r. AD 117-138) aimed at instituting local rights and privileges accounted for their frequently being designated city founders. There exists an imperial Roman foundation story of Hadrianople/Adrianople, modern city of Edirne, which lies 230 km northwest of Istanbul. This imperial Roman foundation story is then retold in three 10th-century Byzantine chronicles and then in a 14th-century Byzantine martyrdom story. The article focuses on these imperial Roman and Byzantine foundation stories.
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Farewell to Cyril Alexander Mango, Our Istanbouliote Fellow Townsman (14 April 1928-8 February 2021),” with Peter Frankopan and Elif Keser Kayaalp, Toplumsal Tarih 327 (March 2021): 72–77.
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Space, Place and Foundation Stories of the Cities in the Land of Rome Abstract-The theories on space as being a multi-layered social construction have been influencing studies conducted in social sciences, especially the ones on... more
Space, Place and Foundation Stories of the Cities in the Land of Rome
Abstract-The theories on space as being a multi-layered social construction have been influencing studies conducted in social sciences, especially the ones on literature, history, geography, theology and political science since 1960s. In the narrative historical sources such as chronicles, epics and hagiography, time and space (chronotrope) are the essential building blocks of the stories. Space in the historical sources is the container for the events and for the historical figures (factual or fictional) in which the characters may stand still or move. Space turns into a place through naming (toponym), manipulation of the landscapes (city architecture as well as arable land and social structures) and through telling stories about a particular place. This article examines Byzantine hagiography and Turkish Muslim epics in order to examine the way in which the cities of Byzantium (Diyar-ı Rum, Land of Rome) turn into "Turkish Muslim," cities through toponymic changes and the creation of new foundation stories.
Abstract-The theories on space as being a multi-layered social construction have been influencing studies conducted in social sciences, especially the ones on literature, history, geography, theology and political science since 1960s. In the narrative historical sources such as chronicles, epics and hagiography, time and space (chronotrope) are the essential building blocks of the stories. Space in the historical sources is the container for the events and for the historical figures (factual or fictional) in which the characters may stand still or move. Space turns into a place through naming (toponym), manipulation of the landscapes (city architecture as well as arable land and social structures) and through telling stories about a particular place. This article examines Byzantine hagiography and Turkish Muslim epics in order to examine the way in which the cities of Byzantium (Diyar-ı Rum, Land of Rome) turn into "Turkish Muslim," cities through toponymic changes and the creation of new foundation stories.
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Food in the palaces, streets and taverns of Constantinople.
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Toplumsal Tarih; Ağustos 2019'da "Günümüz İstanbul’unda Bizans" başlıklı özel bir dosyayla Türkiye’de Bizans tarihçiliğinin bugünkü durumunu gösteren araştırmalara odaklanıyor. Dosyada bir araya getirilen makaleler, İstanbul ve çevresinde... more
Toplumsal Tarih; Ağustos 2019'da "Günümüz İstanbul’unda Bizans" başlıklı özel bir dosyayla Türkiye’de Bizans tarihçiliğinin bugünkü durumunu gösteren araştırmalara odaklanıyor. Dosyada bir araya getirilen makaleler, İstanbul ve çevresinde son yıllarda yapılan kazılardan ve yürütülen araştırmalardan hareketle Bizans dönemi toplumsal ve gündelik hayatına dair önemli bulgular sunuyor. Zengin içeriğiyle referans niteliğindeki dosya, aynı zamanda İstanbul’da Bizans mirası üzerine araştırmaların geçmişine ve kaynaklarına ilişkin de yeni bilgiler içeriyor.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı editörlüğündeki Ağustos 2019 dosyasının ilk makalesini ortaklaşa kaleme alan Rahmi Asal, Mehmet Ali Polat ve Yusuf Tokgöz; Marmaray Kartal İstasyonu’nun inşaat faaliyetleri sırasında ortaya çıkan Bizans dönemine ait mezar ve sikke buluntularını Kartal bölgesinin Bizans döneminde önemli bir liman olması ile bağlantılı olarak inceliyorlar. Gülbahar Baran Çelik ile Emir Son’un makalesi; Bizans İmparatorluğu’nun başkenti ve önemli bir ticaret merkezi olan İstanbul’da; Marmaray, metro projeleri kapsamında 2004–2014 yılları arasında İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri tarafından Yenikapı’da yapılan kazılarda ortaya çıkan buluntulardan hareketle günlük yaşantımızda halen varlığını koruyan kimi materyal ve inançların, Bizans ve öncesi kültürlerde neredeyse birebir var olduğunu ortaya koyuyor. Tarihi Yarımada’daki yerleşimin, Eski Çağ’da oluşmaya başlayan ve Orta Çağ’dan Yeni Çağ’a ulaşan süreçte çağlar boyunca hava şartlarına ve akıntının şiddetine göre denizciler tarafından kullanılan doğal limanlar ile ilişkisini inceleyen Mustafa Sayar; Byzantion ve Bizans dönemlerindeki limanları tanıttığı makalesinde 2000’li yıllarda gerçekleşen Yenikapı Marmaray kazısı ile ortaya çıkan Theodosius limanına değiniyor. Kerim Altuğ; Yarımada’nın zaman içerisinde üçüncü, dördüncü ve beşinci tepeleri boyunca batıya doğru genişlemesinin kentte doğurduğu su ihtiyacı üzerinden okuyucuyu Büyük Saray kesiminde bir gezintiye çıkararak bölgenin Bizans dönemindeki su temini altyapısına ilişkin verileri paylaşıyor. Selvihan Kurt’un makalesi; Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezinde bulunan Aziz Ogan arşivinden yararlanarak, 1930’lardan itibaren İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzesi Müdürü ve Eski Eserler Direktörü Aziz Ogan’ın (1888–1956) birlikte çalıştığı yabancı Bizantologlar ile yazışmaları üzerinden Cumhuriyet’in ilk 20–30 yılında İstanbul’da Bizans mirası tartışmalarına yer veriyor. Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED) Birim Kütüphanecisi Naz Baydar ise yazısında Bizans'ı birincil ve ikincil yazılı kaynaklarda araştırmak isteyebilecek okuyucular için günümüz Beyoğlu semtinde “BiblioPera: Beyoğlu Araştırma Merkezleri Ağı” çerçevesinde Bizans koleksiyonuna sahip kütüphaneleri tanıtıyor.
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı editörlüğündeki Ağustos 2019 dosyasının ilk makalesini ortaklaşa kaleme alan Rahmi Asal, Mehmet Ali Polat ve Yusuf Tokgöz; Marmaray Kartal İstasyonu’nun inşaat faaliyetleri sırasında ortaya çıkan Bizans dönemine ait mezar ve sikke buluntularını Kartal bölgesinin Bizans döneminde önemli bir liman olması ile bağlantılı olarak inceliyorlar. Gülbahar Baran Çelik ile Emir Son’un makalesi; Bizans İmparatorluğu’nun başkenti ve önemli bir ticaret merkezi olan İstanbul’da; Marmaray, metro projeleri kapsamında 2004–2014 yılları arasında İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri tarafından Yenikapı’da yapılan kazılarda ortaya çıkan buluntulardan hareketle günlük yaşantımızda halen varlığını koruyan kimi materyal ve inançların, Bizans ve öncesi kültürlerde neredeyse birebir var olduğunu ortaya koyuyor. Tarihi Yarımada’daki yerleşimin, Eski Çağ’da oluşmaya başlayan ve Orta Çağ’dan Yeni Çağ’a ulaşan süreçte çağlar boyunca hava şartlarına ve akıntının şiddetine göre denizciler tarafından kullanılan doğal limanlar ile ilişkisini inceleyen Mustafa Sayar; Byzantion ve Bizans dönemlerindeki limanları tanıttığı makalesinde 2000’li yıllarda gerçekleşen Yenikapı Marmaray kazısı ile ortaya çıkan Theodosius limanına değiniyor. Kerim Altuğ; Yarımada’nın zaman içerisinde üçüncü, dördüncü ve beşinci tepeleri boyunca batıya doğru genişlemesinin kentte doğurduğu su ihtiyacı üzerinden okuyucuyu Büyük Saray kesiminde bir gezintiye çıkararak bölgenin Bizans dönemindeki su temini altyapısına ilişkin verileri paylaşıyor. Selvihan Kurt’un makalesi; Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Arşiv ve Dokümantasyon Merkezinde bulunan Aziz Ogan arşivinden yararlanarak, 1930’lardan itibaren İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzesi Müdürü ve Eski Eserler Direktörü Aziz Ogan’ın (1888–1956) birlikte çalıştığı yabancı Bizantologlar ile yazışmaları üzerinden Cumhuriyet’in ilk 20–30 yılında İstanbul’da Bizans mirası tartışmalarına yer veriyor. Koç Üniversitesi Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED) Birim Kütüphanecisi Naz Baydar ise yazısında Bizans'ı birincil ve ikincil yazılı kaynaklarda araştırmak isteyebilecek okuyucular için günümüz Beyoğlu semtinde “BiblioPera: Beyoğlu Araştırma Merkezleri Ağı” çerçevesinde Bizans koleksiyonuna sahip kütüphaneleri tanıtıyor.
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"Life in Byzantine Saint Sophia Through Senses," Saint Sophia: One thousand five hundred years of debate over identity, memory and space, eds. Ç. Kafesçioğlu, N. Necipoğlu.
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Byzantium as a Metaphor in Modern Turkish Popular Culture
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Research Interests: Turkish Cinema, Cross-Cultural Studies, Narrative and Identity, Perception(s) of Byzantium, Frontier Narratives, and 5 moreByzantium in Turkish cinema, Medieval Islamic and Turco-Iranian world, Mongol world empire, Seljuk, Mongol, post-Mongol, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500), Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture, and Persian and Ottoman Turkish historical writing
Byzantium in Early Turkish Republican Novels
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I. Heath, Byzantine Armies 886-1118 and Byzantine Armies 1118-1461 AD, Men-at-Arms, Osprey, trans. Buket Bayrı
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D. Nicolle, Romano-Byzantine Armies. Men-at-Arms 247, Osprey, trans. Buket Bayrı
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Regards croisés sur la civilisation byzantine, ed. Annie Pralong, trans. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
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Interview, SEV American High Schools Alumni Magazine.
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Buket Kitapçı Bayrı talks to the artist Ethem Onur Bilgiç on the representation of Byzantium in The Cradle from Batman: The World, where Batman quests in various cities around the world.... more
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı talks to the artist Ethem Onur Bilgiç on the representation of Byzantium in The Cradle from Batman: The World, where Batman quests in various cities around the world. https://istanbulresearchinstitute.podbean.com/e/5-batman-dunya-besik-buket-kitapci-bayri-ethem-onur-bilgic-le-batman-in-istanbul-da-bizans-la-tanismasini-degerlendiriyor/?fbclid=IwAR3TCkCmxBgxiD0Ry8Rwvude7J1HQ-6XXls5IapGIFmYpEnAO9_6-AJ0AdU
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Ethel Sara Wolper (Author), Review of Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) (The Medieval Mediterranean Series) Leiden: Brill, 2020, in... more
Ethel Sara Wolper (Author), Review of Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) (The Medieval Mediterranean Series) Leiden: Brill, 2020, in Speculum 98/2 (April 2023)
Research Interests: Geography, Spatial Analysis, Identity (Culture), Ottoman Studies, Byzantine Studies, and 7 moreByzantine Hagiography, Menakıbname, Medieval Anatolia (Seljuk, Mongol), Literary Spatial Studies, Social History of Medieval Anatolia (under Byzantine, Seljuq, Mongol, early Ottoman domination), Byzantine Identity, and Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı = Turkish Language and Literature Destanlar = Epics
Marie-Hélène Blanchet (author), Review of Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) (The Medieval Mediterranean Series) Brill-Leyde-Boston, 2020,... more
Marie-Hélène Blanchet (author), Review of Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) (The Medieval Mediterranean Series) Brill-Leyde-Boston, 2020, in Revue des études byzantines 80 (2022), 349-350.
Research Interests: Geography, Ottoman Studies, Cultural Identity, Byzantine Studies, Spatiality (Cultural geography), and 8 moreSocio-spatial Theory, Byzantine Hagiography, Borders and Frontiers, Menakıbname, Medieval Anatolia (Seljuk, Mongol), Literary Spatial Studies, Byzantine Identity, and Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı = Turkish Language and Literature Destanlar = Epics
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International Conference (hybrid) 27-29 April 2023 Swedish Institute at Athens The event is organized by Prof. Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University) Ass. Prof. Myrto Veikou (University of Patras) & Researcher (Uppsala University)... more
International Conference (hybrid)
27-29 April 2023
Swedish Institute at Athens
The event is organized by
Prof. Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University)
Ass. Prof. Myrto Veikou (University of Patras) & Researcher (Uppsala University)
Assoc. Prof. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı (Independent Researcher)
Contact:
myrto.veikou@lingfil.uu.se, mveikou@upatras.gr
bkbayri@gmail.com
For more information: https://conferences.sia.gr/en/conferences.php?confid=5
27-29 April 2023
Swedish Institute at Athens
The event is organized by
Prof. Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University)
Ass. Prof. Myrto Veikou (University of Patras) & Researcher (Uppsala University)
Assoc. Prof. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı (Independent Researcher)
Contact:
myrto.veikou@lingfil.uu.se, mveikou@upatras.gr
bkbayri@gmail.com
For more information: https://conferences.sia.gr/en/conferences.php?confid=5
Research Interests:
The Swedish Institute at Athens and the organisers welcome you to Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond. Perceptions, performativity, placemaking, an international conference held between 27–29 April, 2023, in the Swedish Institute at... more
The Swedish Institute at Athens and the organisers welcome you to Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond. Perceptions, performativity, placemaking, an international conference held between 27–29 April, 2023, in the Swedish Institute at Athens lecture hall, Mitseon 9, Athens. The conference is organised in a hybrid format and will be streamed via zoom.
Since its first conception by Arnold van Gennep in 1909 and its development by Victor Turner in 1950s, the anthropological concept of liminality has travelled to endless areas of study helping to articulate human conditions of and responses to change, and hence developed into a master concept in the wider human, social and political sciences. It has allowed demonstrating that changes in human lives occur through breaking boundaries and experiencing transitory situations and transformative events. These experiences generate in-betweenness, ambivalence, uncertainty, fluidity, hybridity and sometimes existential fear, as well as creativity and renewal which end up producing new and different ‘realities.’ The concept of liminality has both temporal and spatial dimensions. On the personal level, moments such as birth, baptism, passage to adolescence, passage to womanhood, moving, traveling, pilgrimage and conversion and on the social level wars, plague, revolution, invasion and natural disasters can be considered as liminal experiences. Sometimes liminality, which is considered to be a transitionary period can become permanent for individuals and groups such as monks, punks, vagabonds, migrants, and artists.
This meeting concentrates on the concept of liminality in the Byzantine world during which the acts of subversion of territorial and linguistic barriers – through political, military, social and cultural interaction as well as technological, artistic and literary exchange – were very common. Instead of choosing predefined liminal moments/periods or liminal persons, the departure point of the meeting is the spatial dimension of liminality. In specific, the meeting seeks to understand whether certain types of spaces accommodate—or even create—liminal situations according to the eyes of the people experiencing them. It aspires to offer an alternative to the binary oppositions such as inside/outside, self/other, and good/bad and delineate liminality as a pertinent, even necessary concept for understanding a whole series of phenomena placed within the medieval world, and to show connections with our contemporary world so variously characterized by constant change, uncertainty, and institutionalized contingency. It also aims to further develop the use of the concept of ‘space’ as a vehicle for research of the medieval societies and cultures and as working platform for interdisciplinary collaboration within Byzantine and medieval studies.
Visit conferences.sia.gr for more information and programme.
To register, please visit conferences.sia.gr and first register as a user (if you do not already have an account). After verifying your email address, you can register for the conference either for live or digital attendance, in which case you will receive a zoom link to follow the conference. The zoom link can also be found on the website’s program page under “Live Connection URL”. Please note that you must be logged in to have access to the link.
Warmly welcome!
Myrto Veikou, Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Ingela Nilsson
Since its first conception by Arnold van Gennep in 1909 and its development by Victor Turner in 1950s, the anthropological concept of liminality has travelled to endless areas of study helping to articulate human conditions of and responses to change, and hence developed into a master concept in the wider human, social and political sciences. It has allowed demonstrating that changes in human lives occur through breaking boundaries and experiencing transitory situations and transformative events. These experiences generate in-betweenness, ambivalence, uncertainty, fluidity, hybridity and sometimes existential fear, as well as creativity and renewal which end up producing new and different ‘realities.’ The concept of liminality has both temporal and spatial dimensions. On the personal level, moments such as birth, baptism, passage to adolescence, passage to womanhood, moving, traveling, pilgrimage and conversion and on the social level wars, plague, revolution, invasion and natural disasters can be considered as liminal experiences. Sometimes liminality, which is considered to be a transitionary period can become permanent for individuals and groups such as monks, punks, vagabonds, migrants, and artists.
This meeting concentrates on the concept of liminality in the Byzantine world during which the acts of subversion of territorial and linguistic barriers – through political, military, social and cultural interaction as well as technological, artistic and literary exchange – were very common. Instead of choosing predefined liminal moments/periods or liminal persons, the departure point of the meeting is the spatial dimension of liminality. In specific, the meeting seeks to understand whether certain types of spaces accommodate—or even create—liminal situations according to the eyes of the people experiencing them. It aspires to offer an alternative to the binary oppositions such as inside/outside, self/other, and good/bad and delineate liminality as a pertinent, even necessary concept for understanding a whole series of phenomena placed within the medieval world, and to show connections with our contemporary world so variously characterized by constant change, uncertainty, and institutionalized contingency. It also aims to further develop the use of the concept of ‘space’ as a vehicle for research of the medieval societies and cultures and as working platform for interdisciplinary collaboration within Byzantine and medieval studies.
Visit conferences.sia.gr for more information and programme.
To register, please visit conferences.sia.gr and first register as a user (if you do not already have an account). After verifying your email address, you can register for the conference either for live or digital attendance, in which case you will receive a zoom link to follow the conference. The zoom link can also be found on the website’s program page under “Live Connection URL”. Please note that you must be logged in to have access to the link.
Warmly welcome!
Myrto Veikou, Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Ingela Nilsson
Borderlands: the gendered space of epic and translation October 3, 19.00 (Istanbul)/18.00 (Stockholm) – Online https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68626020541 Participants Markéta Kulhánková, Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University, Brno Amanda... more
Borderlands: the gendered space of epic and translation
October 3, 19.00 (Istanbul)/18.00 (Stockholm) – Online
https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68626020541
Participants
Markéta Kulhánková, Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University, Brno
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard Library
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Istanbul
Moderator: Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University
The ancient term epic is often applied to medieval heroic tales, written in
different languages and set in the liminal landscape between Byzantium, the
Caliphates, and later Turkic polities. To call these rather different kinds of texts ‘epic’ might be seen as problematic, but it offers a useful indication of how they tend to be understood by modern readers: as traditionally male stories, focusing on war and heroic actions. And yet, heroic tales such as the Greek Digenis, Akrites, the Arabic Dhat al-Himma, and the Turkic Battalname, display a wide variety of characters, both male and female, whose significance for the plot does not necessarily depend on their gender.
October 3, 19.00 (Istanbul)/18.00 (Stockholm) – Online
https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68626020541
Participants
Markéta Kulhánková, Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University, Brno
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard Library
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Istanbul
Moderator: Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University
The ancient term epic is often applied to medieval heroic tales, written in
different languages and set in the liminal landscape between Byzantium, the
Caliphates, and later Turkic polities. To call these rather different kinds of texts ‘epic’ might be seen as problematic, but it offers a useful indication of how they tend to be understood by modern readers: as traditionally male stories, focusing on war and heroic actions. And yet, heroic tales such as the Greek Digenis, Akrites, the Arabic Dhat al-Himma, and the Turkic Battalname, display a wide variety of characters, both male and female, whose significance for the plot does not necessarily depend on their gender.