The Thousand and One Churches

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Thousand and One Churches
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Mitchell Ramsay
By (author) Gertude L. Bell
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:650
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreReligious buildings
Archaeology by period and region
Church history
ISBN/Barcode 9781108043342
ClassificationsDewey:726.509564
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 4 Maps; 386 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 January 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Written by two of the most eminent Anatolian experts of the day, this book on church history and architecture in Turkey was first published in 1909. Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939), Scottish classical scholar and archaeologist, and Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), traveller, archaeologist and diplomatist, joined forces for an expedition investigating the Hittite and Byzantine site of Bin-Bir-Kilisse in Turkey in 1907. Bell was successful in establishing the chronology of Byzantine churches, and her findings constitute the middle two parts of the book, on buildings and ecclesiastical architecture. Ramsay contributed the first and last parts, on the historical and geographical details of the churches and an account of other notable monuments in the region. Ramsay was knighted in 1906 and both scholars were honoured by the Royal Geographical Society. In 1913 Bell became one of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Society.