The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE / Matthew P. Canepa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canepa, Matthew P., 1975- author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and state.

Architecture, Ancient.

Iran--History.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia's cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction

PART ONE. ORDERING THE EARTH

CHAPTER TWO. Building the First Persian Empire

CHAPTER THREE. The Destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the Creation of Seleucid Iran

CHAPTER FOUR. The Rise of the Arsacids and a New Iranian Topography of Power

CHAPTER FIVE. Rival Visions and New Royal Identities in Post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus

CHAPTER SIX. Sasanian Rupture and Renovation

PART TWO. SACRED SPACES

CHAPTER SEVEN. Persian Religion and Achaemenid Sacred Spaces

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Seleucid Transformation of Iranian Sacred Spaces

CHAPTER NINE. Ancient Sacred Landscapes and Memories of Persian Religion in Anatolia and the Caucasus

PART THREE. LANDSCAPES OF TIME AND MEMORY

CHAPTER TEN. Iranian Funerary Landscapes

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Dynastic Sanctuaries

CHAPTER TWELVE. Sasanian Memory and the Persian Monumental and Ritual Legacy

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Reshaping Iran's Past and Building Its Future

PART FOUR. PALACE AND PARADISE

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Persian Palatial Cosmologies

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The Seleucid and Arsacid Transformations of Iranian Palatial Architecture

CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Earthly Paradises

Epilogue

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520964365

0520964365

OCLC:

995630478