Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires

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 antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. The authors are acknowledged special...

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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 antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. The authors are acknowledged specialists in their own fields, but they address themes relevant for all courts: the inner and outer dimensions of court architecture as well as staff organizations; the connections between court, capital, and realm; the relationship of the ruler with relatives and other elites. This volume pioneers comparative history combining a rich empirical orientation with a critical assessment of theoretical perspectives.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
FROM ASSYRIA TO ROME
Pride, Pomp and Circumstance: Palace, Court and Household in Assyria 879–612 BCE
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
FROM ASSYRIA TO ROME
Pride, Pomp and Circumstance: Palace, Court and Household in Assyria 879–612 BCE
Hellenistic Court Society: The Seleukid Imperial Court under Antiochos the Great, 223–187 BCE
The Roman Imperial Court: Seen and Unseen in the Performance of Power
Court and State in the Roman Empire—Domestication and Tradition in Comparative Perspective
SUCCESSORS AND PARALLELS IN EAST AND WEST Court and Capital in Byzantium
A King on the Move: The Place of an Itinerant Court in Charlemagne’s Government
Court Historiography in Early Tang China: Assigning a Place to History and Historians at the Palace
To be a Prince in the Fourth/Tenth-Century Abbasid Court
Ceremonies and the City: The Court in Fourteenth-Century Constantinople
THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
The Pope’s Household and Court in the Early Modern Age
The Monarch and Inner-Outer Court Dualism in Late Imperial China
Turks in the Ottoman Imperial Palace
The Mughal Audience Hall: A Solomonic Revival of Persepolis in the Form of a Mosque
Royal Weddings and the Grand Vezirate: Institutional and Symbolic Change in the Early Eighteenth Century
Versailles, Vienna, and Beyond: Changing Views of Household and Government in Early Modern Europe
Index
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