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"The Court Society is a book to be read on several levels. It is a historical book, carefully researched and with great imagination painting a vivid and detaile

This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court.

Palace intrigues and clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy D

Illuminates the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places