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Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
A Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2011
3170 kr
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In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of research on royal courts from …
Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2013
3286 kr
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The Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which ‘women above stairs’ shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and …
Law and Empire
Ideas, Practices, Actors
Inbunden, 2013
2556 kr
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Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal …
Dynastic Centre and the Provinces
Agents & Interactions
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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Maintaining the connections between the dynastic court and the provinces was a major challenge for pre-modern governments. The allegiance of governors shifted easily from the centre to the provinces. Ritual and festive occasions, equally important to generate cohesion, were rarely shaped wholly by …
Key to Power?
The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750
Av Dries Raeymaekers, Sebastiaan Derks
Inbunden, 2016
2996 kr
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Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of ‘access to the ruler’ has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of …
Mughal Padshah
A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir’s Court and Household
Av Jorge Flores
Inbunden, 2015
2130 kr
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In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir …
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589
Av Neil Murphy
Inbunden, 2016
2834 kr
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In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used …
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
Av Maaike van Berkel, Jeroen Duindam
Inbunden, 2018
3304 kr
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Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and …
Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Peter Edwards, Elspeth Graham
Inbunden, 2016
2927 kr
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The lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil …
Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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In Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 Richard van Leeuwen analyses representations and constructions of the idea of kingship in fictional texts of various genres, especially belonging to the intermediate layer between popular and official literature. The analysis shows how …
Factional Struggles
Divided Elites in European Cities & Courts (1400-1750)
Inbunden, 2017
2209 kr
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This title is available in Open Access thanks to the support of Université de Genève.Factional Struggles explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from …
Florentine Patricians and Their Networks
Structures Behind the Cultural Success and the Political Representation of the Medici Court (1600–1660)
Inbunden, 2017
3345 kr
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In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author …
Living the Good Life
Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century
Av Elif Akçetin, Suraiya Faroqhi
Inbunden, 2017
3210 kr
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Eighteenth-century consumers of the Qing and Ottoman empires had access to an increasingly diverse array of goods, from home furnishings to fashionable clothes and new foodstuffs. While this tendency was of shorter duration and intensity in the Ottoman world, some urbanites of the sultans’ realm …
Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence
Inbunden, 2018
2327 kr
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The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family’s reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination …
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia
Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences
Inbunden, 2020
2366 kr
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The concept, practice, institution and appearance of ‘the state’ have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to take for granted …
Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572–1615
Inbunden, 2023
2069 kr
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This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests …
Between Italian and European Courts
Early Modern Ambassadors on the Move
Inbunden, 2026
1868 kr
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Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the figure of the ambassador underwent profound changes. This volume investigates its various aspects, analysing the criteria for choosing the diplomat, the arrival and the long years spent at the host court, as well as the conditions of the return …
Diplomacy as Experience of the Other
French Consuls in the Maghreb (1700–1840)
Inbunden, 2026
1881 kr
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This book, initially published in French in 2002, has served as a foundational reference for the emerging field of “New Diplomatic History.” Adopting a microhistorical approach, Christian Windler proposed a novel paradigm for the cultural and social history of diplomacy. His work combines a focus …
Every Inch a King
Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Inbunden, 2012
3130 kr
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The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly …
