COST A36, Tributary Empires Compared
Royal Courts and Capitals, 14-16 October 2005
Sabanci University, Istanbul
14 OCTOBER
Friday Morning
Opening Metin Kunt / Jeroen Duindam 9.00-10.00
Session I 10.30-12.00 Variants of Dynastic Power
- Metin Kunt (Sabanci) “How to become a sultan”
- Walter Scheidel (Stanford/Graz) “Towards a comparative study of monarchical succession and dynastic stability”
- Robert Frost (Aberdeen) “Court, power and ritual in Poland-Lithuania under the Vasa dynasty, 1587-
1668”
Friday working lunch, Management Committee, COST A36 Action: Tributary Empires
Friday afternoon
Session II 13.30-15.30 Households and Bureaucracies: ‘state’ and ‘court’
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill “The Roman imperial court: seen and unseen in the performance of power”
- Peter Bang (Copenhagen) “Court and State in the Roman World”
- Hugh Kennedy (St Andrews) “Women and power in the early Abbasi court”
Session II 16.00-17.30 Households and Bureaucracies: ‘state’ and ‘court’
Jeroen Duindam (Utrecht) “Households and state bureaucracies: status, influence, and decision-making in Vienna and Versailles"
- Toby Osborne (Durham) “A shadow of a prince: diplomats embodying princes in early modern court ceremonial”
15 OCTOBER
Saturday morning
Session III 9.00-12.30 Household Organization: Structures and Practices
- Mia Rodriguez Salgado (LSEP) “Microcosm of empire or Castilian enclave? The court of Philip II of Spain”
- Maria-Antonietta Visceglia (Rome) “The Pope's Household (XIV- XVII centuries) (court personnel)”
- Tülay Artan (Sabanci) “The grandvizier's 'new' household on parade : refashioning bureaucracy at the 1720 Circumcision Festival ?”
- Paul Magdalino (St Andrews/Koc) “Court and Capital in Byzantium”
Saturday afternoon
Session IV 13.30-15.30 Courts as Meeting Places and Centres of Elite Integration
- Rosamond McKitterick (Newnham Cambridge) “The itinerant Frankish royal court in the reign of Charlemagne”
- Janos Bak “Court and courtiers in the medieval kingdom of Hungary”
- Jonathan Shepard (Oxford) “Young Barbarians at Court”
Session V 16.00-17.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: Legitimation and Display, I
- Ebba Koch (Vienna) “Court Ceremonial and architecture as statements of Mughal rulership
- Michael Rogers (London) “Ottoman Regalia”
16 OCTOBER
Sunday morning
Session VI 9.00-10.30 Courts as Conspicuous Centres: Legitimation and Display, II
- İsenbike Togan (METU-Ankara) “Tang court (7th c.) assigns a place to history and historians”
- Amira Bennison (Cambridge) “The Qur'an of 'Uthman: The transformation of Cordoban Umayyad Ceremonial at the Almohad court in Marrakesh?”
Session VII 11.00-13.00 General Evaluation & Discussion
- Peter Burke (Cambridge)
- Greg Woolf (St Andrews)
- Philip Mansel (Society for Court Studies, London)
Sunday afternoon
Meeting, Management Committee, COST A36 Action
Palace and museum visits for non-members
