By Rhoads Murphey
ISBN-10: 1441120084
ISBN-13: 9781441120083
ISBN-10: 1847252206
ISBN-13: 9781847252203
Sovereignty was once hooked up to the individual of the sultan who moved (with his courtroom) either frequently and for lengthy remains clear of his central place of abode. within the interval among 1360 and 1453 there have been twin capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) or even after 1453 numerous Ottoman sultans confirmed a choice for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the superb - held via the Ottomans, western contemporaries and glossy analysts alike to be the head and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent way more time clear of his place of dwelling on the Topkapi Palace than in it. This e-book explores the starting to be complexity of the empire because it absorbed cultural affects and imperial legacies from a large variety of resources each one in flip engendering another interpretation of current notions of kingship and definitions of the position and serve as of the ruler.
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