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Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia

Seljuk Gardens and Pavilions of Alanya, Turkey

£83.00
Author:
Scott Redford with a chapter by Timothy Beach and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710952
Paperback:
330pp. Includes 155 illustrations, 8 tables, 3 graphs, index
ISBN 10:
1841710954
BAR number:
S893
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This study, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia, combines local history, geography, art history, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens, and their architecture, have been neglected, not only because of the paucity of remains, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place, and a sensitivity to the landscape. This book attempts to recover a measure of that sense and that landscape, as well as the activities that endowed them with meaning for those that enjoyed them.