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
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