Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires

Jeroen Duindam is Professor of Modern History at Leiden University. Duindam studies dynastic centres and elites in a comparative perspective. His publications include Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam 1995) and Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals 1550-1780 (Cambridge 2003).

Tülay Artan is Profesor at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Artan’s research focuses on the Ottoman elite in Istanbul, the lives of its members and material culture that surrounded them in the eighteenth century. She is the author of a section on “Art and Architecture”, in : Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3, Suraiya Faroqhi ed. (Cambridge 2006) and numerous other publications.

Metin Kunt is Professor of History at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Kunt previously taught at Bogazici University, Istanbul, and at Cambridge University; he also held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale and Leiden. His main areas of research are Ottoman political sociology and sociology of knowledge. His publications include Sultan's Servants (Columbia, 1983) and The Age of Suleiman the Magnificent, co-edited with Christine Woodhead (London 1995).

All those interested in ancient, medieval, and early modern history, comparative history, court studies, state formation, social elites, urban history, architecture. Arabic, Chinese, Ottoman, Byzantine, European history, and anthropology.

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Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires, Jeroen Duindam


FROM ASSYRIA TO ROME

Pride, Pomp and Circumstance: Palace, Court and Household in Assyria 879 – 612 BCE, Gojko Barjamovic

Hellenistic Court Society: The Seleukid Imperial Court under Antiochos the Great, 223-187 BCE, Rolf Strootman

The Roman Imperial Court: Seen and Unseen in the Performance of Power, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Court and State in the Roman Empire – Domestication and Tradition in Comparative Perspective, Peter Fibiger Bang


SUCCESSORS AND PARALLELS IN EAST AND WEST

Court and Capital in Byzantium, Paul Magdalino

A King on the Move: The Place of an Itinerant Court in Charlemagne’s Government, Rosamond McKitterick

Court Historiography in Early Tang China: Assigning a Place to History and Historians at the Palace, Isenbike Togan

To be a Prince in the Fourth/Tenth-Century Abbasid Court, Nadia Maria El Cheikh

Ceremonies and the City: The Court in Fourteenth-Century Constantinople, Ruth Macrides


THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

The Pope’s Household and Court in the Early Modern Age, Maria Antonietta Visceglia

The Monarch and Inner-Outer Court Dualism in Late Imperial China, Sabine Dabringhaus

Turks in the Ottoman Imperial Palace, İ. Metin Kunt

The Mughal Audience Hall: A Solomonic Revival of Persepolis in Form of a Mosque, Ebba Koch

Royal Weddings and the Grand Vezirate: Institutional and Symbolic Change in the Early Eighteenth Century, Tülay Artan

Versailles, Vienna, and Beyond: Changing Views of Household and Government in Early Modern Europe, Jeroen Duindam

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