Bettany Hughes, Tom Holland | Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities | Jaipur Literature Festival
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities: Bettany Hughes & Tom Holland
Dr. Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at Oxford University she has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht and Manchester. She is a Tutor for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education and a Research Fellow of King’s College London.
Tom Holland is the author of four books on ancient and early medieval history: Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and In the Shadow of the Sword. He has translated Herodotus for Penguin Classics. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from the origins of Islam to dinosaurs.
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Quran to Shakespeare, this city with three names -Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul- resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries, both real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was known simply as The City' but as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, it is a story. In her epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities. Introduced by historian Tom Holland.
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Pity that we cannot see the images projected on the screen.
The book is terrific. Entertainly written, engrossing, and well-researched. She clearly has gone back to Istanbul several times. She is up on the latest archaeological research. How unusual for a person with such a winning personality demonstrated in her fine and well-informed documentaries to also write such a well-researched book.
I discovered Bethany Hughes just last week and have been a great fan of her A former Istanbulite
@youyou6008
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It's an incredible book. Bettany Hughes gives an enthusiastic lecture without notes.
Lovely woman Bethany Hughes is Love her Documentaries.
@jonhohensee3258
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Who the heck is "Bethany"?
Thanks to this, I just ordered the book
Agreed. Istanbul is fascinating. Jaipur is also a fascinating and beautiful city. I have greatly enjoyed visiting and learning in both. Considering the history of Jaipur with Islam and the sponsorship of the Aga Khan foundation, it is understandable that Bettany is soft on Islam. But this slant is sad. My research shows otherwise. Turkish women were actually captives in harems. This was not by choice. They were blessed if their house had a screened bay upstairs from which they could watch the world go by below. Jewish women, called kiras, were intermediaries to do their business in the outside world. When the harem situation was brought to the attention of Western women's rights reformers, whom I would think Bettany would support, in the 1910s there was an outcry on their behalf. This likely influenced Atatürk's reforms in the next decade, improving the situation of women in modern Turkey. Christians were not treated well either. Two off the famous residents of Istanbul she refers were forced to convert, like Sinan, the kidnapped youth ripped away from his family and forced to become a Muslim Janissary. All the Janissaries were kidnapped Christian youths. And of course, the Turkish conquest of Constantinople was softened; whereas the 4 Crusade's conquest looks worse because she skipped confusing political side-swapping by leaders, the confusion of which brought on the fighting. Bettany is a good presenter with interesting insights. I appreciate that she focuses more on women, who are often overlooked in history. But I have noticed before that she plays soft with Islam. It would be great if she read an old, meaning accurate, translation of the Quran and some of the Sahih hadith collections, like Bukhari or Sahih Muslim. For general readers who would like to know more, I could suggest Terry Kelhawk's exciting adventure novel "The Topkapi Secret," or Pierre Loti's classic 1906 work "The Disenchanted."
She presents to a live audience just as well as her recorded tv documentaries
Dear Professor Bettany, you are inspiring me to do videos as well, but I'll do it from a Chemist viewpoint...
*_Where tf is Spiderman?_*
What a combination!
Where is historical peer reviewed claim that in 5500 bc there was a sea level rise of 268ft in 300 days in turkey?
Ugh I wish she was my mom
Its not Instanbul the name its KONSTANTINOUPOLI. the barbarians named like this they have nothing to offer nothing to show no histoty no culture Bethany you are a great historian but this time i dont know i have lots of you book but this one i dont think so i am verry sorry you are still the BEST of all