Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective

Jeroen Duindam is Professor of Modern History at Leiden University. Duindam studies dynastic centres and elites in a comparative perspective. His publications include "Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court" (Amsterdam 1995) and "Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe s Dynastic Rivals 1550-1780" (Cambridge 2003). T lay Artan is Profesor at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Artan s research focuses on the Ottoman elite in Istanbul, the lives of its members and material culture that surrounded them in the eighteenth century. She is the author of a section on Art and Architecture, in: "Cambridge History of Turkey," vol. 3, Suraiya Faroqhi ed. (Cambridge 2006) and numerous other publications. Metin Kunt is Professor of History at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Kunt previously taught at Bogazici University, Istanbul, and at Cambridge University; he also held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale and Leiden. His main areas of research are Ottoman political sociology and sociology of knowledge. His publications include "Sultan's Servants" (Columbia, 1983) and "The Age of Suleiman the Magnificent," co-edited with Christine Woodhead (London 1995).