Student Reader's History Notes » Ottoman Empire http://history.studentreader.com Just another Student Reader weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:09:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Timeline of Mesopotamia: Ottoman Rule, Part I: Mamluk Era http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-mesopotamia-ottoman-rule http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-mesopotamia-ottoman-rule#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:31:47 +0000 Levi Clancy http://history.studentreader.com/?p=4751 Period or Event Time-Frame Overview Ottoman Conquest 16th & 17th Cent AD Mesopotamia came under Ottoman hegemony and was split into three provinces based on the towns of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. Tension between the Sunni Ottomans and Shi’i Safavid shahs of Persia led to fragmentation and diminished control from the central Ottoman government in Istanbul. Initiative and power lay with those who could command forces.

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]]> http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-mesopotamia-ottoman-rule/feed 0 Timeline of Anatolia: Ottoman Empire http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-anatolia-ottoman-empire http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-anatolia-ottoman-empire#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:31:51 +0000 Levi Clancy http://history.studentreader.com/?p=4715 Period or Event Time-Frame Overview Opening to Turks 1071/08/26 After the Battle of Malazgirt, Anatolia opened its doors to the Turks. ]]> http://history.studentreader.com/timeline-of-anatolia-ottoman-empire/feed 0 Ottoman Empire: Iconography http://history.studentreader.com/ottoman-empire-iconography http://history.studentreader.com/ottoman-empire-iconography#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:54:39 +0000 Levi Clancy http://history.studentreader.com/?p=4432 Image Artifact Date Overview constantinople istanbul turkey icon orthodoxy

Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. About 1400. Constantinople. Egg tempera, gesso, wood, linen, gold-lead. British Museum. PE 1988.0411.1. Purchased with the aid of The Art Fund. Image by L. M. Clancy, 2009/09/13.

Icon of Triumph of Orthodoxy About 1400 In AD 730 the Byzantine Emperor Leo III forbade the use of icons within the empire. The judgment was not universally popular and Empress Theodora restored their use in 843. This icon celebrates the ‘Triumph of the Orthodoxy’ over iconoclasm. It shows the empress (top left) and her son, Emperor Michael III, with saints and religious leaders. On an altar is an image of the Virgin Hodegetria (‘she who knows the way’) which was believed to have been painted by St. Luke from life. The notion of St. Luke as a painter was crucial to the argument that icons had existed since the birth of Christ. constantinople istanbul turkey icon st john saint john

Icon of St. John the Baptist. About 1300. Constantinople. Wood, linen, gold-leaf, gesso, paint. British Museum. PE 1986.0708.1; purchased with the aid of The Art Fund, British Museum Publications Ltd and S. Niarchos. Image by L. M. Clancy, 2009/09/13.

Icon of St. John the Baptist About 1300 St. John, the cousin of Jesus, was seen as the last of the prophets. This depiction of the saint shows him in a prophet’s robes holding a scroll. His unkempt hair and the hint of a camel hair skirt under his red tunic are an allusion to his life as a hermit. St. John’s intense gaze invites a certain intimacy which, combined with the small scale of this icon, indicates it was probably used for a private devotion. constantinople istanbul turkey icon st peter saint peter

Icon of St. Peter. About 1320. Constantinople. Cedar, linen, gold-leaf, gesso, paint. British Museum. PE 1983.0401.1. Image by L. M. Clancy, 2009/09/13.

Icon of St. Peter About 1320 This icon is of the highest quality. It depicts St. Peter as an elderly man carrying a scroll. The scroll bares a Greek inscription which is a plea for celibacy. This subjects indicates that the icon may have been painted for a community of monks. The icon was originally much larger and it was probably designed to be viewed at a distance as a prominent piece of public devotional art.

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