Visualizing Community: Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia

by Robert G Ousterhout and Robert G. Ousterhout

Cappadocia, a picturesque volcanic region of central Anatolia, preserves the best evidence of daily life in the Byzantine Empire and yet remains remarkably understudied, better known to tourists than to scholars. The area preserves an abundance of physical remains: at least a thousand rock-cut churches or chapels, of which more than one-third retain significant elements of their painted decoration, as well as monasteries, houses, entire towns and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088402413X
• ISBN13: 9780884024132
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"