Studying and Preserving the Historic Gardens of Istanbul
Course Readings
July, 3, 2014
Whittaker, C.R., 1990. “The Consumer city revisted: the vicus and the city”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 3, pp. 110-118.
Henry Maguire. Gardens and Parks in Constantinople, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2000, pp. 251-264
Kaldjian, P. Istanbul’s Bostans: a Millennium of Market Gardens. Geographical Review 94(3), 2004, 284-304.
Necipoglu, Gülru. 1997. The Suburban Landscape of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul as a Mirror of Classical Ottoman Garden Culture.” In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design, edited by Attilio Petruccioli, Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, pp. 32-71
Shopov, Aleksandar and Ayhan Han. Osmanlı Istanbul’unda Kent Içi Tarımsal Toprak Kullanımı ve Dönüsümleri: Yedikule Bostanları, Toplumsal Tarih, 236, August 2013, 34 – 38. (English translation)
July, 8
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, 1975, Oxford University Press, pp.1-12
Cassianus, Bassus, Geoponika: Farm Work: A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook. Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 2011, 9-55 and 246- 267.
Brubaker, Leslie. The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana, in Byzantine Garden Culture ed., Anthony Littlewood, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke – Bulmahn, 189-214
July , 10
Maria Mavrudi and Mary-Lyon Dolezal, “Theodore Hyrtakenos’ Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Byzantine Descriptions of Gardens.” In Byzantine Garden Culture, eds. A. Littlewood, H. Maguire, J. Wolschke-Buhlmann, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C, 2002, 105-158.
Shirine Hamadeh, Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul, in The Early Modern Ottomans, edited by Virginia Aksan and Daniel Goffman, 2007, 277-312.
Byzantine Typika:
(Twelfth century) Typikon of Athanasios Philanthropenos for the Monastery of St. Mamas in Constantinople (trans. Anastasius Bandy)
(Thirteenth century) Typikon of Theodora Palaiologina for the Convent of Lips in Constantinople (trans. Alice-Mary Talbot)
Typikon of Theodora Palaiologina for the Convent of Sts. Kosmas and Damian in Constantinople (trans. Alice-Mary Talbot)
Inalcık, Halil. 2012 . The Survey of Istanbul 1455: The Text, English Translation, Analysis of the Text, Documents. İstanbul, Turkey: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2012, preface, introduction and pp. 295- 368.
The Survey of the Bustans (Gardens) in Istanbul intramural from 1735. (unpublished, english translation)
July 15 and 17
Bevan, A., Conolly, J., Colledge, S., Frederick, C., Palmer, C., Siddall, R. & Stellatou, A. 2013. The
Long-Term Ecology of Agricultural Terraces and Enclosed Fields from Antikythera, Greece. Human Ecology 41(2): 255-272.
Conolly, J., & M. Lake. 2006. First Principles. In Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology.
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11-32.
Goodchild, H. 2012. GIS Models of Roman Agricultural Production. In A. Bowman & A. Wilson (ed.)
The Roman Agricultural Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 55-84.
Ingold, T. 2000. To Journey Along a Way of Life. In T. Ingold The Perception of the Environment.
I noticed a 15th C. imperial Vakfiye at the tour of the Sabanci University Museum yesterday. Unfortunately, it didn’t endow a bostan, but getting to see an example was nevertheless interesting.
I noticed a 15th C. imperial Vakfiye at the tour of the Sabanci University Museum yesterday. Unfortunately, it didn’t endow a bostan, but getting to see an example was nevertheless interesting.