Patricia Blessing Books

Considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio- political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners.

This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated... číst celé