Abstract
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.
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