2. “Asia and Europe Commonly Called East and West”: Constantinople and Geographical Imagination in Byzantium Dimiter Angelov Writing in the years shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, Ioannes Kanavoutzes, a Greek teacher living in Genoese Phokaia in Asia Minor, addressed Palamede Gattilusio (1431–1455),… Read more
3. Cartography and the Ottoman Imperial Project in the Sixteenth Century Pınar Emiralioğlu In the sixteenth century, Ottoman encounters with the Habsburg Empire in the West and the Safavids in the East turned violent as the Ottomans fought these rival empires on the battlefields. During this… Read more
4. Ferīdūn Beg’s Münşeʾātü ’s-Selāṭīn (‘Correspondence of Sultans’) and Late Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Views of the Political World Dimitris Kastritsis The question of Ottoman political geography has yet to be addressed in any depth. The place of the science of geography in the Ottoman Empire has received… Read more
5. Imperial Geography and War: The Ottoman Case Antonis Anastasopoulos Premodern empires in southeastern Europe and western Asia, with the Ottomans being the last in a succession of empires that controlled territories in both regions, [1] were big territorial entities, and… Read more
6. Ambiguities of Sovereignty: Property Rights and Spectacles of Statehood in Tanzimat Izmir Sibel Zandi-Sayek The relationship between modern state power and geographic space, as evidenced in monumental constructions, institutional buildings, public works, and spectacles, as well as surveys, cadastres, and other mapping technologies, has received… Read more
Chapter 14. Words and Things The mental gymnastics of the deipnosophists are not only a mechanism that produces and combines quotations indefinitely. Despite its playful character, it is not an end in itself. It plays an instrumental role in the constitution and the enrichment of a field… Read more
Chapter 15. The Deipnosophists as a Text: Genesis, Uses In this strange path that associates banquets, a library, lexica, and insatiable scholars, we now need to ask what was the aim of the game. Is Athenaeus perhaps the victim of the most severe Alexandrine syndrome, that of… Read more
Chapter 12. Libraries and Bibliophiles The mention of Larensius’ rich library at the beginning of Book I does not fill out the portrait of the host of the banquets, a rich Roman bibliophile and philhellene. The library also plays an essential role in Athenaeus’ work. The link… Read more
Chapter 13. Scholars’ Practices The bibliographical knowledge of Athenaeus and his characters is of a cartographical nature; it organizes a space, subdivides it, and proposes different points of view, which lead from the literary genre to the text and to the quotation, or vice versa. This shift… Read more
14. How Binitarian/Trinitarian was Eusebius? Volker Henning Drecoll The Trinitarian theology of Eusebius is one of the crucial problems of the history of theology of the fourth century. It is often assumed that Eusebius’ theology is a kind of standard theology, which was shared by many… Read more
