ANAMED Talks: Rediscovering Anatolia's Forgotten Literary Heritage

ANAMED Talks: Rediscovering Anatolia's Forgotten Literary Heritage

ANAMED Talks:
Rediscovering Anatolia's Forgotten Literary Heritage
Speakers: Andrew Peacock & Sara Nur Yıldız
Moderator: Zeynep Oktay

How can scholars profit from the many textual sources of late medieval Muslim Anatolia on the eve of Ottoman hegemony, in the paucity of contemporary chronicles and archival documentation? This month's speakers Sara Nur Yıldız and Andrew Peacock will discuss how these works shed light not only on intellectual and literary currents of an Islamicizing Anatolia, but also on the development of regional court life, the language and aspirations of kingship, and the religious and political concerns of courts. They will also consider how textual sources can illuminate the religious and cultural life of society beyond the elite.

Moderated by Zeynep Oktay.