| ISBN |
2503546919 (hardcover) |
| 9782503546919 (hardcover) |
| Title |
Medieval and early modern performance in the Eastern Mediterranean / edited by Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz |
| Publisher |
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2014 |
| Physical desc. |
xxxvi, 576 pages ; illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Late medieval and early modern studies 20 |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1: Verbal art as performance. Metin And -- Storytelling as performance / Metin And -- The Maqama: between a tale and a one-man show: in search of its form of performance / Revital Refael-Vivante -- Orality, text, and performance in the Book of Dede Korkut / Arzu Ozturkmen -- Signals of performability in the Croatian Glagolitic legend of St John Chrysostom / Marija-Ana Durrigl -- The performance of Joinville's Credo / Michael Curschmann -- Medieval folktales, modern problems, and a gifted preacher: the case of Rabbi Joseph Hayyim and the 'Tale of a fox that left his heart at home' / David Rotman -- 'The seven sleepers of Ephesus': can we reawaken performance of this hagiographical folktale? / Evelyn Birge Vitz -- Part 2: Performance under imperial realms. How to entertain the Byzantines: some remarks on mimes and jesters in Byzantium / Przemysław Marciniak -- Between admiration, anxiety, and anger: views on mimes and performers in the Byzantine world / Tivadar Palagyi -- Performance and ideology in the exchange of prisoners between the Byzantines and the Islamic Near Easterners in the early Middle Ages / Koray Durak -- Fireworks in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Clowns at Ottoman festivities / Özdemir Nutku -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): her Turkish performances / Danielle Haase-Dubosc -- The fusion of Zar-Bori and Sufi Zikr as performance: enslaved Africans in the Ottoman Empire / Ehud R. Toledano -- Part 3: Modes and varieties of entertainment. How dark is the history of the night, how black the story of coffee, how bitter the tale of love: the changing measure of leisure and pleasure in early modern Istanbul / Cemal Kafadar -- One man and his audience: comedy in Ottoman shadow puppet performances / Daryo Mizrahi -- Shadow theatre, the karagoz (kara gyooz) and the texts of Ibn Daniyal (1248-1311?) / Mas'ud Hamdan -- Armenian traditional music and the performance practices in the Armenian community of Jerusalem / Noune Zeltsburg-Poghosyan -- Constructing the performed identity of Sephardic songs / Judith R. Cohen -- Gypsy musicians and performances in the Ottoman Balkans / Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov -- Part 4: Iconography. Scenes of performers in Byzantine art, iconography, social and cultural milieu: the case of acrobats / Viktoria Kepetzi -- Theatricality of Byzantine images: some preliminary thoughts / Anestis Vasilakeris -- Theatrical features in Armenian manuscripts / Emma Petrosyan -- Capital initials with images of musicians in Armenian manuscripts / Hrant Khachikyan -- Glorious noise of empire / Gabriela Currie -- Part 5: Ritual roots of performance. Representing the Moulid: Salah Jahin's Al-Layla al-Kabira between populist and nationalist aspirations / Samia Mehrez -- Performative conceptions of social change: the case of Nevruz celebrations in pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Anatolia / Yucel Demirer -- Alevi ritual movement: its representation in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts and today / Fahriye Dincer -- The Moreška dance/drama on the island of Korčula (Croatia): a Turkish connection? / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- The show and the ritual: the Mevlevi mukabele in Ottoman times / Cem Behar -- The ritual of Vardan Mamikonyan / Zhenya Khachatryan -- Epilogue: The performative turn in recent cultural history / Peter Burke |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 |
| Performing arts -- Middle East -- History -- 16th century |
| Performing arts -- Middle East -- History -- 17th century |
| Storytelling -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 |
| Storytelling -- Middle East -- History -- 16th century |
| Storytelling -- Middle East -- History -- 17th century |
| Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- 1081-1453 |
| Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
| Turkey -- Civilization -- 1288-1918 |
| Added name(s) |
Öztürkmen, Arzu 1965- editor |
| Vitz, Evelyn Birge editor |
