IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 515: Spaces of Empire

Sponsor:	American University of Beirut
Organiser:	David Joseph Wrisley, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of Beirut
Moderator/Chair:	David Joseph Wrisley, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of Beirut
Paper 515-a	Fatih’s Alexander Dreams as Revealed by Maps (Language: English) Karen Pinto, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of Beirut Index terms: Art History - General, Islamic & Arabic Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 515-b	Patronage of Holy Space: Imperial Competition over the Islamic Holy Cities in the Early 14th Century (Language: English) Anne F. Broadbridge, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Index terms: Islamic & Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric
Paper 515-c	Mapping Christian Space in Jean Germain's Mappemonde Spirituelle (Language: English) David Joseph Wrisley, Civilization Sequence Program, American University of Beirut Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Rhetoric
Abstract	This panel is an interdisciplinary, comparative inquiry into both the construction and the contestation of imperial space in the 14th and 15th centuries from Christian and Islamic sources (Burgundian, Ottoman, Mamluk, Mongol). Each of the papers will focus on the ideological construction of geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula and will offer a theoretical reflection on the relationship of propaganda, empire and space.