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Soft cover. Condition: New. SINGER, AMY - CHRISTOPH K. NEUMANN - NINA ERGIN (Edited by) Feeding people, feeding power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul: Eren Yayincilik, 2007. Large 8vo., 312 p., ills. Paperback. New ISBN: 9789756372395 CATALOG: Ottoman history KEYWORDS: Ottoman Empire Ottoman religieus system Imarets have long been recognized as one signature institution of the Ottoman Empire. These public kitchens were typically located in mosque complexes or multi-structured complexes, which included some or all of the following buildings: mosque, medrese, mekteb, tomb, caravansaray, sufi tekke (or tekye) , hospital, bath, market, and other structures associated with the social, economic, and cultural life of the population, usually in an urban setting. Studying imarets is yet another way to explore the Ottoman vision of conquest, empire-building, and imperial rule. The imarets were part of the multiple Ottoman provisioning systems supporting the imperial palaces, military campaigns, cities, and the annual hajj caravan to Mecca and Medina. The public kitchens operated in a society where the state and beneficent institutions held a continual and considerable role in contributing to the daily subsistence of all kinds of individuals. Ultimately, the Ottoman sultan's preoccupation with food was in part an outgrowth of his political and military capacities, and his general responsibility to provide for his subjects. Although the precise dynamic of the emergence of imarets as a distinct institutional form is a process that remains to be traced, it was clearly a confluence of historical practices, together with the demands placed on the early Ottoman sultanate, that gave rise to the particular form of the imaret. Evliya Celebi remarked that in all his travels he saw "nothing like our enviable institution." At least one architectural historian claims that no earlier structures have been found that are analogous and certainly none are described in general books on Islamic architecture. The particular Ottoman origin of the imaret as a distinct architectural form is also attested by its presence throughout the Ottoman lands, Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Arab provinces, regions that did not necessarily share institutions in the pre-Ottoman period. Entirely unexplored remains the impact of Byzantine practices of charity on the Ottoman imarets. The daily distribution of cooked meals to large numbers of urban dwellers year-round from a special building designed for that purpose thus appears to have been an Ottoman innovation, at least outside the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and of Hebron.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 312 p., b/w and color ills. Feeding people, feeding power: Imarets in the Ottoman Empire. Imarets have long been recognized as one signature institution of the Ottoman Empire. These public kitchens were typically located in mosque complexes or multi-structured complexes, which included some or all of the following buildings: mosque, medrese, mekteb, tomb, caravansaray, sufi tekke (or tekye) , hospital, bath, market, and other structures associated with the social, economic, and cultural life of the population, usually in an urban setting. Studying imarets is yet another way to explore the Ottoman vision of conquest, empire-building, and imperial rule. The imarets were part of the multiple Ottoman provisioning systems supporting the imperial palaces, military campaigns, cities, and the annual hajj caravan to Mecca and Medina. The public kitchens operated in a society where the state and beneficent institutions held a continual and considerable role in contributing to the daily subsistence of all kinds of individuals. Ultimately, the Ottoman sultan's preoccupation with food was in part an outgrowth of his political and military capacities, and his general responsibility to provide for his subjects. Although the precise dynamic of the emergence of imarets as a distinct institutional form is a process that remains to be traced, it was clearly a confluence of historical practices, together with the demands placed on the early Ottoman sultanate, that gave rise to the particular form of the imaret. Evliya Celebi remarked that in all his travels he saw "nothing like our enviable institution." At least one architectural historian claims that no earlier structures have been found that are analogous and certainly none are described in general books on Islamic architecture. The particular Ottoman origin of the imaret as a distinct architectural form is also attested by its presence throughout the Ottoman lands, Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Arab provinces, regions that did not necessarily share institutions in the pre-Ottoman period. Entirely unexplored remains the impact of Byzantine practices of charity on the Ottoman imarets. The daily distribution of cooked meals to large numbers of urban dwellers year-round from a special building designed for that purpose thus appears to have been an Ottoman innovation, at least outside the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and of Hebron.…

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Condition: New. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466. . 2015. Hardback. . . . . …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2014 Brill paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: The shore defies definition. The shore deconstructs and rebuilds, is the beginning or end of a journey, initiates or stops mobility. Here survivors of shipwrecks, like Robinson Crusoe, escape their death; and the weary and tired, like Max Morden, wade back into the womb of nature. The shore is transformation spatialized. Still the coast as literary setting is more than a decorative space. Its utopian/dystopian nature, its liminality and ambiguity invite transgressions of various kinds, which undermine any notion of stable and fixed borders and boundaries. The littoral is liminal, a third space that contests and deconstructs epistemic certainties. This study illustrates this paradigmatic nature of shorelines from William Shakespeare's The Tempest to John Banville's The Sea. Contents: 1 Transformative Shores - An Introduction 1.1 The Shore: From Geography to Literature 1.2 On the Literary Shore 1.3 Introducing Beach Trialectics in Banville's The Sea 2 Ambiguity 2.1 The Semantics of the Limit: Trichotomous Boundaries 2.2 On Distant Shores - Locating the Utopian Beach 2.3 Imaginary Shores and Fraying Peripheries 2.4 The Nostalgic Shore in Alex Garland's The Beach 3 Liminality 3.1 Liminal Shores 3.2 The Liminal Shore in Shakespeare's The Tempest 3.3 Peripheral Shorelines: Beaches and Semiospheres 3.4 Semiospheres in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 4 Transgression 4.1 The Shore as a Figure of the Third 4.2 Fluid Transgressions in Shakespeare's Macbeth 4.3 On Robinson Crusoe's Transgressive Shores 4.4 From Heterotopia to Camp: The Politics of the Shore 4.5 The Heterotopian Shore in Golding's Lord of the Flies 4.6 Fighting Ambiguity on the Shore: The Beach as Camp 4.7 Crossing the Epistemic Abyss: Narrating the Other Side in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake 4.8 A Second Genesis: The Shorelines of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost 4.9 Post-Apocalyptic Shores and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's The Road.…

Condition: New. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466. . 2015. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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