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Author Canepa, Matthew P., 1975- author.

Title The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE / Matthew P. Canepa
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 494 pages)
Contents Introduction : conceptualizing Iran and building Iranian empires -- Ordering the earth and building the First Persian Empire -- The destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the creation of Seleucid Iran -- The rise of the Arsacids and a new Iranian topography of power -- Rival visions, ancient landscapes, and new royal identities in post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus -- Sasanian rupture and renovation -- Persian religion and Achaemenid sacred spaces -- The Seleucid transformation of Iranian sacred spaces -- Ancient sacred landscapes and new royal identities in Anatolia and the Caucasus -- Iranian funerary landscapes -- Dynastic sanctuaries -- Reshaping the Persian monumental and ritual legacy and building a new vision of the Kayanid past -- The creation of a primordial Iranian sacred topography -- Persian palatial cosmologies -- The Seleucid transformation Persian palatial architecture and a new Iranian tradition under the Arsacids -- The palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World -- Earthly paradises
Summary "The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment--everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples--to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies over a thousand years of history. Although scholars have often noted startling continuities between the traditions of the Achaemenids and the art and architecture of medieval or Early Modern Islam, the tumultuous millennium between Alexander and Islam has routinely been downplayed or omitted. The Iranian Expanse delves into this fascinating period, examining royal culture and identity as something built and shaped by strategic changes to architectonic and urban spaces and the landscape of Western Asia. Canepa shows how the Seleucids, Arsacids, and Sasanians played a transformative role in developing a new Iranian royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, and Mughals."--Provided by publisher
Analysis academic
architecture
built environment
college
cosmology
cultural memory
iran
iranian monarchy
iranian royalty
iranian
landscapes
middle east
middle eastern history
monarchy
natural environment
natural world
nature
persia
persian kings
persian royalty
power structure
power struggle
royal identity
sacred cosmologies
scholarly
social studies
world history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018)
Subject Architecture, Ancient -- Iran
Architecture and state -- Iran -- History -- To 1500
Architecture and religion -- History -- To 1500
Palaces -- Iran -- History -- To 1500
Sacred space -- Iran -- History -- To 1500
Cultural landscapes -- Social aspects -- Iran -- History -- To 1500
ARCHITECTURE / History / Prehistoric & Primitive.
ART / History / Ancient & Classical.
Architecture, Ancient
Architecture and religion
Architecture and state
Kings and rulers -- Dwellings
Palaces
Sacred space
Architektur
Kulturraum
Machtstruktur
SUBJECT Iran -- Kings and rulers -- Dwellings -- History -- To 1500
Iran -- History -- To 640. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067896
Subject Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017036164
ISBN 9780520964365
0520964365