Find books, articles, and websites about houses and housewares in Ottoman Turkey in the 16th century. Because of the limited information from the 16th century, I have included resources covering the early 17th century as well. The mid-17th century appears to be when fashions change enough that houses definitely no longer reflect 16th-century practices, but use caution with early 17th-century sources as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When possible, I link to a free online copy of the resource that is hosted on a reputable site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These three resources are the must-reads, the best-of-the-bests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
History of Istanbul: From Antiquity to the 21st Century<\/strong><\/a> Faroqhi, Suraiya and Neumann, Christoph K. The Illuminated Table, the Prosperous House: Food and Shelter in Ottoman Material Culture<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. Halle (Saale): Universit\u00e4ts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2017. Faroqhi, Suraiya. Men of Modest Substance: House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Behar, Cem. A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Ilyas Mahalle<\/a><\/em>. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bertram, Carel. Imagining the Turkish House: Collective Visions of Home<\/a><\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canbulat, \u0130brahim. “The Ottoman House: Structure and Form under the Synthesis of the Anatolia -Ottomans | Osmanl\u0131 Evi: Anadolu -Osmanl\u0131 Sentezinde Str\u00fckt\u00fcr ve Form<\/a>.” Symposium on Restoration and Conservation of Traditional Timber Structures 4, 2016. Pp. 61-168. In English and Turkish.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n — “Travellers\u2019 Narratives on the Ottoman House: Filling the missing links in the evolution of structure and form<\/a>.” Conference: Travellers in Ottoman Lands, the Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond Sarajevo, 24-26 August 2022, at Safranbolu, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eldem, Sedad Hakk\u0131. Turkish House Plan Types | T\u00fcrk Evi Plan Tipleri<\/a><\/em>. Istanbul: Pulman Matbaas\u0131, 1954. In Turkish with a short English section.<\/em> — Turkish Houses, Ottoman Period. | T\u00fcrk evi. Osmanli donemi<\/em>. Three volumes. Istanbul: T\u00fcrkiye Anit Cevre Turizm Degerlerini Koruma Vakfi, 1984, 1986, 1987. In English and Turkish.<\/em> Erarslan, Alev. “An Evaluation on the Turkish House with Exterior Sofa<\/a>.” PRO LIGNO, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2019. Pp. 17-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly, Tamara. “Evolution of the Traditional Turkish House<\/a>.” WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, Vol. 203, 2020. Pp. 63-75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kuban, Do\u011fan. The Turkish Hayat House<\/em>. Muhittin Salih Eren, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct, Sibel G\u00fcrses. “Istanbul Dwellings from the 16th to the 19th Century | 16. Y\u00fczy\u0131ldan 19. Y\u00fczy\u0131la \u0130stanbul Haneleri<\/a>.” Journal of the Academic Studies of Turkish-Islamic Civilization, Vol. 16, Issue 32, March 2021. Pp 311-335. In Turkish.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although these resources don’t focus on domestic architecture, they offer views of house exteriors and interiors as they existed in the 16th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Westbrook, N., Dark, K. R. ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9116-8068 and Van Meeuwen, R. (2010) “Constructing Melchior Lorichs’s ‘Panorama of Constantinople’<\/a>.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians<\/em>, 69 (1). pp. 62-87. ISSN 0037-9808 doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/jsah.2010.69.1.62 Find books, articles, and websites about houses and housewares in Ottoman Turkey in the 16th century. Because of the limited information from the 16th century, I have included resources covering the early 17th century as well. The mid-17th century appears to be when fashions change enough that houses definitely no\u2026<\/p>\n
This amazing resource began as a ten-volume anthology of scholarly articles covering everything from archaeology, to topology, to politics, religion, and language, to the architecture and social life of Istanbul. All the contents are now translated into excellent English and presented online for free. The articles listed below are some I found particularly useful, but there are many, many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Download by clicking the link labeled “PDF.”<\/em>
Although the articles below are the ones most applicable to the topic, I also recommend the articles on food and cooking, especially the delightfully named “The Chickens of Paradise.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
This splendid and exhaustive review of houses and their surroundings in two cities in central Turkey covers the years 1600 and 1690.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOttoman Turkish Houses and Housewares<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A detailed analysis of increasingly complex house plan types. Eldem is the father of Turkish house studies, and T\u00fcrk Evi Plan Tipleri<\/em> was formative for generations of scholars. Although his ideas have been revised, refined, and challenged, his work is a good introduction to the concept of the Turkish house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A review of houses from each period of Ottoman history, with floor plans and discussions of decoration and construction. Especially valuable because Eldem documented older buildings that have since been destroyed. Most of the information about 16th-century houses is in volume 1, with a short section in volume 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\nImages of 16th-Century Houses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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