Название: Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives Автор: Editors: Maaike van Berkel and Jeroen Duindam Издательство: Brill Год: 2018 Формат: djvu Страниц: 668 Размер: 14.2 Мб Язык: английский
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 self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Rulers and Elites in Global History: Introductory Observations By: Jeroen Duindam Pages: 1–31
The Court as a Meeting Point: Cohesion, Competition, Control By: Jeroen Duindam Pages: 32–128
Not of This World …? Religious Power and Imperial Rule in Eurasia, ca. Thirteenth – ca. Eighteenth Century By: Peter Rietbergen Pages: 129–296
The Warband in the Making of Eurasian Empires By: Jos Gommans Pages: 297–383
The People of the Pen: Self-Perceptions of Status and Role in the Administration of Empires and Polities By: Maaike van Berkel Pages: 384–451
The Golden Horde, the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy, and the Construction of Ruling Dynasties By: Marie Favereau Doumenjou and Liesbeth Geevers Pages: 452–512
Narratives of Kingship in Fictional Literature By: Richard van Leeuwen Pages: 513–541
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives By: Jeroen Duindam Pages: 542–565 Toggle Tree Node Back Matter
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
|