Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires

A Global Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9789004206229
• ISBN-10: 9004206221
• Artikelnr.: 33833736

Autorenporträt

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).