Papers by Evanthia Baboula
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2011
This article discusses a story that has enjoyed a long life in scholarly literature, drama, and t... more This article discusses a story that has enjoyed a long life in scholarly literature, drama, and the visual arts: the alleged caging of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I Yildirim (r. 1389–1402) by the Central Asian conqueror, Temür (r. 1370–1405). Attention is focused on the evolution of scholarly discourse on the existence (or otherwise) of the cage. The period from the late seventeenth to the first half of the twentieth century is looked at in particular detail. The debate around the captivity of Bayezid is only fully understood when it is located within a larger historical framework, namely the changing political relationships between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the nineteenth century.
racar 45 (2020) 2 : 141–177 these small religious objects, and that badges were sewn onto the vel... more racar 45 (2020) 2 : 141–177 these small religious objects, and that badges were sewn onto the vellum to mark favourite passages. In Part Six, “Gendering Devotion,” Debra Kaplan opens with a look at Jewish practice in the Holy Roman Empire, and the complex overlap of domestic and communal spaces. By parsing texts, objects, and practices, including the imagery of a silver bride-gift, Italian custom books with block-printed illustrations, baths, devotional rooms, and the baking of family bread in communal or Christian-owned ovens, Kaplan determines that the gendered centrality of religion (rather than the home itself) gave meaning to work, study, and daily devotions. Hildegard Diemberger examines the life of Chokyi Dronma, an elite Buddhist woman who married, gave birth, and entered a monastery in fifteenth-century Tibet. Hers is the oldest known Tibetan biography of a female spiritual master. Passages recounting her daily prayers and family struggles show that domestic lay devotions “...
RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne, 2020
The Journal of Modern Hellenism, 2010
This article presents a detailed analysis of an inlaid brass pyxis produced in Damascus in the se... more This article presents a detailed analysis of an inlaid brass pyxis produced in Damascus in the second decade of the 20th century. The object is made from the lower sections of two artillery shell casings, one of which carries markings of the German munitions factory where it was originally manufactured. This unusual object is contextualized within the larger phenomena of the 'Mamluk Revival' style in Europe and the Islamic world and of the 'Trench Art' made during and after World War I.
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt, by John Bennet, Toby C. Wilkinson, Yannis Galanakis. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014
This article discusses a story that has enjoyed a long life in scholarly literature, drama, and t... more This article discusses a story that has enjoyed a long life in scholarly literature, drama, and the visual arts: the alleged caging of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I Yildirim (r. 1389-1402 by the Central Asian conqueror, Temür (r. 1370Temür (r. -1405. Attention is focused on the evolution of scholarly discourse on the existence (or otherwise) of the cage. The period from the late seventeenth to the first half of the twentieth century is looked at in particular detail. The debate around the captivity of Bayezid is only fully understood when it is located within a larger historical framework, namely the changing political relationships between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the nineteenth century.
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Papers by Evanthia Baboula