Walking through the Narthex: the Rite in the Chora / Manuela Studer-Karlen -- The Adjustment of Chora Monastery to Ottoman Use / M. Baha Tanman -- In the Presence of the Other: the Processes and Problematics of Co-Habiting Religious Sites / Glenn Bowman.
Summary:
"With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building's history, including the status of its mosaics as a major work of Palaiologan painting, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Mediterranean art histories : studies in visual cultures and artistic transfers from late antiquity to the modern period, 2213-3399 ; volume 7
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