Naslov
What is the Centre for the Circulation of Early Modern Fortification Knowledge?

Autori
Papeš, Karla

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
International Conference Art history and discourse on the centre and periphery

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 19.05.2022. - 21.05.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
fortifications, centre, periphery, Ljubo Karaman, Early Modern warfare

Sažetak
In the Early Modern period, the Croatian historical lands functioned as a border area of several powerful states whose frontiers incessantly variated due to the constant wars and conquests, mainly by the Ottoman army. Although some of the repercussions were mass evictions of the population and a decrease of the artistic development in the number of inhabited places, it launched the creation of polygons for extensive modernization of respective defence systems. These were directed from the metropolis but devised and realized in these faraway areas, thus triggering several questions about the circulation of knowledge scheme for this particularly vital architectural typology. In warfare, border regions were the focus, usually reserved for the centre. Certainly, they were spaces of armed conflicts. They could have served as spaces for building practices. Thus, did the transmission of fortification knowledge impose an equalization of the centre and the periphery, or did the borders become the centre of this particular construction practice? What was the centre of construction practice when it came to defence systems? How profound is it to study fortification architecture through the prism of the centre and the periphery? Is such an approach applicable to each architectural typology? Therefore, this paper will attempt to deconstruct the centre/periphery dualism within the discourse on the fortification architecture while also taking into consideration the periphery/province/border area system proposed by Ljubo Karaman. These questions remain one of the main issues while researching the circulation of fortification knowledge. The studied cases will be both modernized and newly constructed fortifications of the eastern Adriatic from the second half of the 15th to the second half of the 17th centuries. The goal is to overcome the dualism in the valorization of cultural production in the so-called periphery. A critical approach to the established theoretical hypothesis enables new readings of these constructions in the European context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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