%0 Book %A Ramsay, William Mitchell, Sir, 1851-1939. %E Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926. %I University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology %D 2008 %C Philadelphia %G English %@ 1934536059 %@ 9781934536056 %T The thousand and one churches %X "Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains one of the most enduring books on the post-Classical monuments of Anatolia. It focuses on the extensive remains of the sprawling early Christian site known as Binbirkilise ("The thousand and one churches") near Konya, excavated by Ramsay and Bell in 1907. The book also provides extensive analysis of other early Christian and Byzantine sites across Anatolia visited by Bell at that time. Because many of the monuments at Binbirkilise and related sites have long since disappeared, the documentation is now invaluable, and Bell's extensive photographs provide a unique view of travel and archaeology more than a century ago." "For this new edition of the book more than 200 high-quality digitized images from the Gertrude Bell Archive at Newcastle University (U.K.) replace the original illustrations, and the Editors' Foreword provides historiographic context for the study." "Ousterhout and Jackson recount the lives and careers of the two authors and the fascinating tale of their collaboration on the Binbirkilise excavation and subsequent book. They view Ramsay and Bell's groundbreaking investigations against the backdrop of "Oriental" exploration and scholarship at the turn of the 20th century, inspired in part by the radical theories of Josef Strzygowski, to whom Ramsay and Bell dedicated the book."--BOOK JACKET.