3) Medieval monuments and modern nations in the Mediterranean

This paper examines the reception of Late Antique, Byzantine, and early modern Ottoman architecture in Istanbul, Turkey, in both the later nineteenth and twenty-first centuries as examples of the use of the past in nation building. In the later years of the Ottoman Empire and also now in contemporary Turkey, the architecture of past imperial states was and is invoked by the ruling political group to bolster the image of the contemporary government and to provide legitimizing foundations upon ...