Prince Pen And Sword Eurasian Perspectives
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Prince Pen And Sword Eurasian Perspectives
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Author : Maaike van Berkel
language : en
Publisher: Rulers & Elites
Release Date : 2018-02
Prince Pen And Sword Eurasian Perspectives written by Maaike van Berkel and has been published by Rulers & Elites this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with History categories.
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
Prince Pen And Sword
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Author : Maaike van Berkel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Prince Pen And Sword written by Maaike van Berkel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Literary Spectacles Of Sultanship
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Author : Gowaart Van Den Bossche
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-09-18
Literary Spectacles Of Sultanship written by Gowaart Van Den Bossche and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-18 with Social Science categories.
The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate have been read as part of an effort of these sultans to legitimise their position on the throne. This book reconsiders the main corpus of six such biographies written by the historians Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 1293) and his nephew Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAlī (d. 1330) and argues that these were in fact far more complex texts. An understanding of their discourses of legitimisation needs to be embedded within a broader understanding of the multi-directional discourses operating across the texts. The study proposes to interpret these texts as "spectacles", in which authors emplotted the reign of a sultan in thoroughly literary and rhetorical fashion, making especially extensive use of textual forms prevalent in the chancery. In doing so the authors reimagined the format of the biography as a performative vehicle for displaying their literary credentials and helping them negotiate positions in the chancery and the wider courtly orbit.
Iran And The Deccan
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Author : Keelan Overton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02
Iran And The Deccan written by Keelan Overton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Art categories.
In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.
Emerging Powers In Eurasian Comparison 200 1100
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-11-07
Emerging Powers In Eurasian Comparison 200 1100 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-07 with History categories.
This book looks at the fall and persistence of empires from the perspective of the powers that replaced them, and compares several cases between China and the West in the first millennium CE with surprisingly similar beginnings and different outcomes.
In The Shadow Of The Gods
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Author : Dominic Lieven
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-06-07
In The Shadow Of The Gods written by Dominic Lieven and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with History categories.
A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). He projects the power, terror, magnificence, and confidence of imperial monarchy, tracking what they had in common as well as what made some rise to glory and others fail spectacularly, and at what price each destiny was reached. Lieven’s characters—Constantine, Chinggis Khan, Trajan, Suleyman, Hadrian, Louis XIV, Maria Theresa, Peter the Great, Queen Victoria, and dozens more—come alive with color, energy, and detail: their upbringings, their loves, their crucial spouses, their dreadful children. They illustrate how politics and government are a gruelling business: a ruler needed stamina, mental and physical toughness, and self-confidence. He or she needed the sound judgement of problems and people which is partly innate but also the product of education and experience. A good brain was essential for setting priorities, weighing conflicting advice, and matching ends to needs. A diplomatically astute marriage was often even more essential. Emperors (and the rare empresses) could be sacred symbols, warrior kings, political leaders, chief executive officers of the government machine, heads of a family, and impresarios directing the many elements of "soft power" essential to any regime’s survival. What was it like to live and work in such an extraordinary role? What qualities did it take to perform this role successfully? Lieven traces the shifting balance among these elements across eras that encompass a staggering array of events from the rise of the world’s great religions to the scientific revolution, the expansion of European empires across oceans, the great twentieth century conflicts, and the triumph of nationalism over imperialism. The rule of the emperor may be over, but Lieven shows us how we live with its poltical and cultural legacies today.
Medieval Muslim Mirrors For Princes
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Author : Louise Marlow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
Medieval Muslim Mirrors For Princes written by Louise Marlow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with History categories.
This anthology introduces major examples of the medieval Arabic, Persian and Turkish mirror for princes literatures in their historical and intellectual contexts. It provides access to an important body of literature, contains several new translations, and addresses parallels in neighbouring and contemporaneous traditions of political thinking.
Caesar Rules
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Author : Olivier Hekster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Caesar Rules written by Olivier Hekster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with History categories.
For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone knew, however, that the emperor held ultimate power over the empire. There were also expectations about what he should do and be, although these varied throughout the empire and also evolved over time. How did these expectations develop and change? To what degree could an emperor deviate from prevailing norms? And what role did major developments in Roman society – such as the rise of Christianity or the choice of Constantinople as the new capital – play in the ways in which emperors could exercise their rule? This ambitious and engaging book describes the surprising stability of the Roman Empire over more than six centuries of history.
Astray
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Author : Eluned Summers-Bremner
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2023-06-07
Astray written by Eluned Summers-Bremner and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-07 with History categories.
A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human—it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning—a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today’s refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope.
Monsieur Second Sons In The Monarchy Of France 1550 1800
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Author : Jonathan Spangler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-28
Monsieur Second Sons In The Monarchy Of France 1550 1800 written by Jonathan Spangler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-28 with History categories.
For the first time, this volume brings together the history of the royal spare in the monarchy of early modern France, those younger brothers of kings known simply as ‘Monsieur’. Ranging from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, this comparative study examines the frustrations of four royal princes whose proximity to their older brothers gave them vast privileges and great prestige, but also placed severe limitations on their activities and aspirations. Each chapter analyses a different aspect of the lives of François, duke of Alençon, Gaston, duke of Orléans, Philippe, duke of Orléans and Louis-Stanislas, count of Provence, starting with their birth and education, their marriages and political careers, and their search for alternative expressions of power through the patronage of the arts, architecture and learning. By comparing these four lives, a powerful image emerges of a key development in the institution of modern monarchy: the transformation of the rebellious, politically ambitious prince into the loyal defender – even in disagreement – of the Crown and of the older brother who wore it. This volume is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of France, monarchy, early modern state building and court studies.