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On the Aesthetics of Manuscripts. A Psychologist’s View
On the Aesthetics of Manuscripts. A Psychologist’s View
As the second-oldest branch of Experimental Psychology, the Psychology of Aesthetics investigates the multi-factorial determination of aesthetic appreciation and production. Having focused on various questions in the visual arts, manuscripts are merely beginning to draw more attention from scholars in the field. My talk will trace potential factors influencing aesthetic valuation of manuscripts, and highlight […]
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Istanbul in times of war: The startling 1918 memoirs of the German private Georg Steinbach
Istanbul in times of war: The startling 1918 memoirs of the German private Georg Steinbach
Georg Steinbach’s War Memoirs recounts the experiences of a German soldier deployed to Istanbul during the First World War. In the spring of 1918, as a 19-year old conscript, Steinbach volunteered for the German Asia Forces, —the “Pasha Army.” Rather than fighting in the trenches of the eastern front, however, Steinbach, was to spend the […]
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The Early Ottomans and the Past. The ‘Oxford Anonymous Chronicle’ (Bodleian Library, Marsh 313) in Historical Context
The Early Ottomans and the Past. The ‘Oxford Anonymous Chronicle’ (Bodleian Library, Marsh 313) in Historical Context
The so-called ‘Oxford Anonymous chronicle’ is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to tell the story of the dynasty from its rise to the year 1484 (AH 889). Like several other histories produced around the same time, some of which it influenced, it presents the Ottomans in the context of wider Islamic history and contains […]