Table of Contents

Part 1 Construction of the new palace and the codification of its ceremonial: building chronology of the new palace and the making of an imperial image; role of the patron, architects, and decorators in the building program; imperial seclusion - the codification of court ceremonial; architectural and ceremonial transformations in the 16th century. Part 2 The imperial fortress and the first court: the imperial fortress, its gates and belvederes; ceremonial space and service buildings of the first court; the middle gate. Part 3 The second court - state ceremonial and service buildings: language of architecture and ceremonial in the second court; royal kitchens; royal stables; dormitories of the halberdiers with tresses. Part 4 The second court - administrative buildings: old council hall; new council hall; tower of justice; public treasury; royal colonnade and the gate of Felicity. Part 5 The third court - layout of the sultan's residence and the chamber of petitions: encountering the sultan - the chamber of petitions and its ceremonial. Part 6 The third court - the palace school for pages: institutional organization of pages; dormitories of pages; the mosque. Part 7 The third court - royal structures in the court of male pages: treasury-bath complex - the large bath; the inner treasury; privy chamber complex - the royal bedroom transformed into a throne room; antechambers and annexed halls, the outer portico, its marble terrace and pool. Part 8 The third court - the imperial harem: rebuilding the harem in the late 16th century - royal quarters, courtyards of the Queen Mother, concubines, and black eunuchs, the hierarchical structure of the harem's layout. Part 9 The hanging garden of the thrid court, its pavilions, and the outer garden: pavilions of the hanging garden; layout and institutional organization of the outer garden - landscape as microcosm. Part 10 The pavilions of the outer garden: 15th century garden pavilions - metaphors of universal empire, tiles kiosk, ishakiye kiosk; 16th century shore pavilions - the end of universalism, marble kiosk, pearl kiosk, shore kiosk, basketmakers' kiosk. Part 11 Conclusion - the topkapi and other palatine traditions. Appendices.