
Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty
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Sovereignty was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.
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Mention -Book News, February 2009 'This book is a lively political anthropology of Ottoman sovereignty, an account of the rituals, ceremonies, and projection of the sultans' power over the period 1480-1820.'More details
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Introduction
1. Dynastic Origins: Medieval Inheritances and Major Influences on Ottoman Concepts of Sovereignty
2. Dynastic Identity: Ottoman Political Values and the Quest for an Imperial Identity in the Proto-Imperial Era, 1300-1450
3. Dynastic Image: An Investigation of the Ottoman's Use of Titulature in Coins and Chancellery Documents
4. The Dynasty as Family Enterprise: Sibling Rivalry, Struggles for Succession to the Throne and Incipient Creation of the 'Political Household'
5. Consolidation of the Political Household in the Immediate Post Accession Phase of Rule
6. Formation of the Wider Palace Household: A People-centered Glimpse at the Institution of the Sultanate and an Account of the Composition, Growth and Development of the Imperial Administrative Corps, ca. 1470 to ca. 1670
7. Celebrating the Coming of Age of an Ottoman Prince: Exclusivity versus Inclusiveness in Ottoman Court Ceremonial
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