Prince, pen, and sword Eurasian perspectives
"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-per...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2018, [2018]
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| Series: | Rulers & elites : comparative studies in governance
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9789004315709 9004315713 9004315705 |