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• Myths of Power: Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court ( translated by Lorri S. Granger and Gerard T. Moran) Amsterdam University Press (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1994
• Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Major Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780 Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2003
• Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors E.J. Brill (Boston, MA), 2013
• The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces: Agents and Interactions E.J. Brill (Boston, MA), 2014
• Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800 Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2016

1. Dynasties : a global history of power, 1300-1800 LCCN 2015015127 Type of material Book Personal name Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962- Main title Dynasties : a global history of power, 1300-1800 / Jeroen Duindam, Leiden University. Published/Produced Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016. Description xx, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm ISBN 9781107060685 (hardback) 9781107637580 (paperback) Links Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/60685/cover/9781107060685.jpg CALL NUMBER JC330 .D85 2016 CABIN BRANCH Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE 2. The dynastic centre and the provinces : agents and interactions LCCN 2014006979 Type of material Book Main title The dynastic centre and the provinces : agents and interactions / edited by Jeroen Duindam and Sabine Dabringhaus. Published/Produced Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014. Description xiii, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. ISBN 9789004251489 (hardback : acid-free paper) Shelf Location FLM2014 180056 CALL NUMBER D105 .D96 2014 OVERFLOWA5S Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLM1) 3. Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors LCCN 2013021985 Type of material Book Main title Law and empire : ideas, practices, actors / edited by Jeroen Duindam, Jill Harries, Caroline Humfress, and Nimrod Hurvitz. Published/Produced Leiden : Brill, 2013. Description x, 348 pages ; 25 cm. ISBN 9789004245297 (hardback : alk. paper) Links Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy14pdf03/2013021985.html CALL NUMBER K555 .L385 2013 Copy 1 Request in Law Library Reading Room (Madison, LM242) CALL NUMBER K555 .L385 2013 Copy 2 Request in Law Library Reading Room (Madison, LM242) 4. Vienna and Versailles : the courts of Europe's major dynastic rivals, 1550-1780 LCCN 2002034949 Type of material Book Personal name Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962- Main title Vienna and Versailles : the courts of Europe's major dynastic rivals, 1550-1780 / Jeroen Duindam. Published/Created Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. Description xi, 349 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. ISBN 0521822629 (hbk.) Links Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1b4-aa Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d9h3-aa Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002034949.html Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002034949.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2002034949-b.html CALL NUMBER DB36.3.H3 D85 2003 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms CALL NUMBER DB36.3.H3 D85 2003 FT MEADE Copy 2 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE 5. Myths of power : Norbert Elias and the early modern European court LCCN 95146087 Type of material Book Personal name Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962- Uniform title Macht en mythe. English Main title Myths of power : Norbert Elias and the early modern European court / Jeroen Duindam ; [translators, Lorri S. Granger and Gerard T. Moran]. Published/Created [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [1994] Description 234 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 9053561110 CALL NUMBER HT653.E9 D8513 1994 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms

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  Personalia

  Jeroen Duindam, born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1962. Ph.D. from Utrecht University. Professor of Early Modern European History at Leiden University.

  Fellow (1 September 2014 – 31 December 2014)

  Dynasty: A Global History 1300-1800

  Research Question

  Which cross-cultural patterns can be established in global practices of dynastic rule from the Mongol conquest to the phase of unchallenged European military and economic hegemony?

  Project Description

  Dynastic forms of power are dominant in history, across boundaries in space and time. During my previous NIAS fellowship I examined dynastic extended households in Asia, Africa, and Europe, with occasional other examples. Four chapters focus on 1) the ruler: position versus person; 2) the dynasty: succession and reproduction; 3) at court: spatial arrangements and recurring tensions; 4) realm: connections and interactions with the population.

  The resulting study written largely in the course of the second semester of 2013-2014 will be corrected and prepared for publication in the first semester of 2014-2015. The book provides a structural and global analysis of the dynastic setup, showing <> examining the role of women, outlining <> positioning <> The inclusion of African kingship and matrilineal descent helps to question common definitions of dynasty and to break free from the restrictions and clichés of Asia-Europe comparisons.

  Selected Publications

  1) Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780 (Cambridge 2003); paperback edition Cambridge 2007; Italian (2004) and Spanish (2009) translations.

  2) Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam 1995)

  3) (with co-editors Metin Kunt and Tulay Artan) Royal courts in dynastic states and empires: a global perspective (Leiden; Boston 2011) available through open access.

• Universiteit Leiden - http://www.hum.leiden.edu/international-studies/meet-our-lecturers/prof-dr-jeroen-duindam-.html

  Prof. dr. Jeroen Duindam (lecturer World History)
  The core of my current research interest is dynastic power centers in Europe and Asia between 1300 and 1800. In fact, rulers all over the world resemble '<>'.

  Eurasian Empires programme group
  Details
  <>: <>.

  My research compares this dynamism between the ruler and their elites in polities like France, China and the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. At first sight, the courts of these rulers look very different.
  Traditionally, European monarchs were depicted as moderate rulers, whereas Asian emperors were seen as powerful despots.

  Behind the scenes, you will find many similarities, which casts doubts about the Europe-centered explanatory models for Western courts like Versailles.

  Comparative research
  It is very important to approach a comparative research subject like this in a ‘symmetrical way’: you need the same level of expertise for every area you study. That is why I work with eleven other researchers in a project group. My own specialty is kingship and dynasty in power in France and the Habsburg lands, my colleagues know all about Asian empires and speak Arabic, Ottoman, Chinese, Russian or Sanskrit.

  I find the focus on regions and their languages of the Bachelor International Studies a great starting point to do more symmetrical comparative research of this kind.

  More information
  You can read more on fields of expertise, publications and CV on the personal page of prof. Duindam.

• Universiteit Leiden - https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/jeroen-duindam#tab-1

  Jeroen Duindam
  Professor of Early Modern History

  COMPARATIVE HISTORY EARLY MODERN HISTORY EUROPEAN HISTORY HISTORY OF EMPIRES STATE FORMATION
  NameProf.dr. J.F.J. Duindam Telephone
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  j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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  Research
  The comparative study of rulers and elites forms the core of my research interest. The connections between rulers and elites were formed partly at the dynastic court; hence this institution plays a key role in my work. Initially concentrating on early modern France and the Austrian Habsburg lands in the European dynastic context, I have been moving towards a global perspective including the Ottoman empire and Late Imperial China as well as Africa.

  Between 2011 and 2016, I led the NWO-Horizon programme Eurasian Empires, including nine researchers based at three Dutch universities. A new NWO-financed project, 'Monarchy in Turmoil Rulers, Courts and Politics in the Netherlands And Germany, C.1780 – C.1820' will start in September 2017: a vacancy for two doctoral researchers will soon be published

  In 2016 Cambridge University Press published my Dynasties. A global history of power 1300-1800.

  Curriculum Vitae
  Studying history (major) and anthropology (minor) at Utrecht University, I was struck by the different approaches to kingship and ritual in these disciplines. This contrast led me to write a critical dissertation on Norbert Elias’ theory of court life, Macht en Mythe (1992), published in an expanded and translated edition as Myths of Power in 1995. In the years before my dissertation, I combined various teaching positions with a job as bassoonist. From 1991 to 2008, I held a sequence of assistant- and associate professorships at the Utrecht History Department, in cultural history, history of international relations, and political history. In these years I also actively participated in the restructuring of the department’s curriculum. A 1999-2000 NWO-research leave allowed me to write my archival comparative study on the courts of Vienna and Versailles, published by Cambridge University Press in 2003 (translated into Italian and Spanish).

  In 2008 I was appointed to the chair for early modern history at Groningen, followed by an appointment to the chair for modern history at Leiden University in September 2010.

  Key publications

  Dynasties. A global history of power 1300-1800 (Cambridge 2016)

  Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires. A Global Perspective (Leiden 2011).
  Edited by Jeroen Duindam, Tülay Artan and Metin Kunt.

  Vienna and Versailles. The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780 (Cambridge 2003); paperback edition Cambridge 2007;

  Myths of Power. Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam 1995).

  Inaugural lecture

  Inaugural lecture Leiden University 6 May 2011

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• New Books Network
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  JEROEN DUINDAM

  Dynasties
  A Global History of Power, 1300-1800

  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2015
  February 22, 2016 Kristian Petersen

  For most of recorded history, single rulers such a kings, queens, chiefs, and emperors exercised authority over human populations. Jeroen Duindam (Professor of Early Modern History, Leiden University) examines an important part of this story in his new book Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He employs an easy-to-follow, four-level comparative framework that explains how dynastic power evolved in kingdoms as diverse as the Qing Empire, Mughal Empire, France, and Dahomey in Africa. The use of <> With careful attention to detail, he recounts how “divergent practices” of dynastic rule “can be seen as part of the same pattern,” as well as how “striking similarities hide profound differences (14).” This approach allows him to illustrate the tendency of scholars to overstate the differences between “Eastern” and “Western” dynasties; it also puts him in a strong position to make astute observations about the role women played in the functioning of dynastic power. Just as important, Duindam’s analysis of dynastic power raises important questions about how modern governments maintain their authority and how the “masses” view the exercise of power over them. Whatever one thinks of Duindam’s specific arguments, he has authored <> that should be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about global history and the exercise of power.

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  Sartore on Duindam, 'Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800'

  Author:
  Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam
  Reviewer:
  Melissa Sartore

  Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam. Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 435 pp. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-63758-0.

  Reviewed by Melissa Sartore (West Virginia University Institute of Technology)
  Published on H-Teach (October, 2016)
  Commissioned by Camarin M. Porter

  In his latest work, Jeroen Duindam returns to familiar territory by looking at rule and power from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Dynasties, however, moves outside of an Eurocentric focus to assess dynastic leadership in a global context. By using a four-part model to investigate rulers, the company they keep, the legacies they leave, and the lands they rule, Duindam explores dynasties from Africa to Asia to the Americas, providing <>

  In addition to assessing dynastic power according to his four-theme model, Duindam also pays close attention to cyclical and long-term developments. Duindam uses examples from existing specialized studies, acknowledging that his work will reveal neither new sources nor investigate every dynasty during the time covered. Rather, by looking at “how divergent practices can be seen as part of the same pattern,” Duindam concludes “the detail brought together in each of the chapters underlines that striking similarities hide profound differences” (p. 14).

  The first theme identified by Duindam is “The Ruler” himself (and much less often, herself). Duindam highlights varying definitions of the ideal ruler over time and space with his extensive examples of historic events and individuals, as well as excerpts from political and literary texts. Religion, regalia, and ritual all factor into the presentation of rulers physically and ideologically while simultaneously creating “unattainable and inconsistent standards” (p. 53). The distinctions between the actual leader and the position of ruler are further highlighted by Duindam as he details rulers’ lives, from the Mughals to the Manchu. <>

  Duties--of family and rule--are the second theme discussed by Duindam, and he assesses the role of women in terms of reproduction and rule alike. The pressure of royal succession often fell upon women as mothers, wives, concubines, and, less often, as rulers. Women were participants in dynastic marriages to create diplomatic alliances among and to exchange land between powerful noble families. While this is not new information for scholars, Duindam uniquely demonstrates how this took place globally, not just in <> Duindam contrasts concubinage and polygyny with the reproduction found in royal European relationships--that of a bastard by a mistress--and notes that the “Christian dictate of monogamy frequently went together with ‘serial concubinage’ outside of the hallowed bond of matrimony” (p. 123). The former functioned around complex hierarchies of women and succession while the latter created “ineligibles” in the face of a fear of dynastic extinction. The rules of succession, based in patrilineal or matrilineal heredity, primogeniture, and indivisibility, developed over time, often overlapped, and could be usurped by kingmakers such as military men who could “sell their swords to the highest bidder or push forward candidates they expected to serve their interests” (p. 148). Regardless of the rules or mechanism used to circumvent them, once succession was determined, “the ‘rites of passage’ that transformed a royal eligible into a king were also a phase of fluidity and anxiety for society as a whole” (p. 149). From that point on, society and the court of the royal alike either supported or resisted the choice depending on their own political and social interests and status.

  Duindam then looks at the royal court and all of its complexities. The term itself is problematic linguistically and by definition, as it has taken on a life of its own in historical application. Courts could be mobile, stationary, large, or small; they could be private or public; and they could be composed of family members alone or include numerous functionaries, advisors, and observers. Through the late Middle Ages and into the early modern period, courts generally became less mobile, and travel fell upon the members of the court itself rather than the king, queen, emperor, or other power-wielding authority. Courts were often centered in urban settings, the administrative and residential hubs of their respective realms but access may have been limited in terms of the inner and outer sanctums of palaces as well as in proximity to the ruler. Court was often voluntary but just as likely could be forced, as was the case with Versailles, as royals used courts to control and influence the behaviors of their nobility. They were places of refuge and companionship, either female or a non-threatening male eunuch variety such as in Ming China, as well as locations of conflict and competition, the likes of which were found in the Safavid court of Suleyman. Duindam does well to provide examples for all of his observations, ultimately concluding that the importance of courts remained relatively consistent throughout the period and played a large role in the state-building activities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  Finally, Duindam looks at domestic and foreign matters in the context of rule, the realm, and service. Supporters were often rewarded with land and titles while detractors suffered an opposite fate, all of which was intended to demonstrate the power and prestige of the ruler. Ceremonies and celebrations, often highly ritualized events, allowed for the masses to participate in the glorification of the ruler in what could be considered an early popular culture phenomenon. As media became more common and more accessible via books, journals, and printed works, “the splash of ephemeral court culture … reached audiences far beyond the groups able to attend” (p. 275). On the other side of that visibility, however, was an increase in criticism and rebellion, as the masses became increasingly aware of the excess, repression, and discontent in the realm.

  Duindam sums up his critique of rule and rulers by emphasizing the commonalities of dynastic training, function, and demonstration while concluding that global change was eminent. Prevailing views of the “rise of the West” and the inherent difference between East and West are far less certain, according to Duindam, and the parallels in past and present rule call for further investigation.

  <> to prove his hypotheses about the similarities between East and West, which are important in terms of offering credibility to his claims. This, however, <>, as he is very convoluted in his overall goal. There are similarities, to be sure, among rulers and rule from 1300 to 1800 on a global stage but the work would be more functional if these were more clearly presented. The scope of the work is overwhelming, an obstacle which renders the work difficult to use in a classroom setting.

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  Citation: Melissa Sartore. Review of Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800. H-Teach, H-Net Reviews. October, 2016.
  URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47514

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  Tuesday, October 18, 2016
  Melissa Sartore’s review provides an apt summary of the themes addressed in my comparative book on dynasties worldwide. My comment has three purposes:

  correcting one major and one minor misunderstanding;
  saying something about the ambitions of the book, not visible in this review;
  adding a few thoughts on ‘difficult’ books and teaching.

  This book dismisses the classic cliché about Versailles as a ‘gilded cage’ for nobles – in this respect it summarises outcomes of my earlier Vienna and Versailles. However, exactly this antiquated view is attributed to me in the review. The book as a whole shows time and again that the royal figure at the heart of the show was an object of manipulation more often than a mastermind-king. Hence this point is fundamental. Far less important, but still relevant is another misunderstanding, about the reduced mobility of courts. While I stress that princes remained mobile, whereas parts of their service establishment (most evidently government services) became sedentary, the review reverses the labels. It states that royals became sedentary and parts of their courts travelled.
  The review summarizes chapter themes and then reaches a conclusion. It does not position the book in scholarship. I use this opportunity to say a few words about the ambitions of the book. Global history, nowadays, usually takes shape as the history of worldwide networks and connections. This detailed and empirically rich ‘connected’ history can be contrasted with the debate on global divergence characterised by a more distanced economic and institutional perspective. My Dynasties book considers four questions (the chapters) all related to a focused theme (dynastic power) in regions across the globe: it is an experiment in comprehensive and empirical global comparative history. This entails the comparison of African kings and Chinese emperors, a choice that seems unlikely, but in fact leads to some of the key conclusions of this book. Also, the global and thematic approach breaks through East-West clichés: Europe and Asia are no longer always the two poles. Whether seen as successful or not, the nature of this experiment deserves some clarification.
  Finally, teaching. Sartore, rightly or wrongly, states that the book is a ‘very problematic read for students’, without considering levels and goals of teaching. To be sure, <>; it was written for advanced BA or graduate students. Rather than providing an accessible overview, it zooms in on specific questions and provides a wealth of materials. This will be helpful mostly for readers with some basic knowledge about courts and rulers. Studying these cases across the globe will help students, particularly those familiar with this theme in one region, to gain a far more nuanced understanding, leaving room for profound differences as well as remarkable parallels.<>

  Jeroen Duindam (Leiden)

  j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl