empire-wide institutions. From the power of an abstract imaginary we turn to the
power of the knout, the army, and the bureaucracy.
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Comparative perspectives: Timothy Brook,The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and
Ming Dynasties(Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2010);
Cemal Kafadar,Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State(Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1995). On Ottoman succession and political symbolism:
Leslie P. Peirce,The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Gülru Necipoğlu,Architecture, Ceremonial,
and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries(New York:
Architectural History Foundation, 1991).
For theoretical perspectives by Jane Burbank, Fred Cooper, and Karen Barkey: see
Introduction. On the trope of despotism in Russia: Marshall Poe,“A People Born to
Slavery”: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476– 1748 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2000).
On dynastic promotion in history and art by the sixteenth-century Tudors: F. J. Levy,
Tudor Historical Thought(San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1967); Kevin Sharpe,
Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England(New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2009); Daniel Woolf,“From Hystories to the Historical:
Five Transitions in Thinking about the Past, 1500–1700,”in Paulina Kewes, ed.,The
Uses of History in Early Modern England(San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 2006),
31 – 67 and hisThe Idea of History in Early Stuart England(Toronto, Buffalo, London:
University of Toronto Press, 1990).
On Osmanli dynastic promotion and portraiture: Esin Atil,Süleymanname: The Illustrated
History of Süleyman the Magnificent(New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers,
1986); H. Erdem Cipa and Emine Fetvaci, eds.,Writing History at the Ottoman Court:
Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univer-
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(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013); Baki Tezcan,“Otto-
man Historical Writing,”in Andrew Feldherr and Grant Hardy, eds.,The Oxford History
of Historical Writing, 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011–12), Vol. 3 (2012):
192 – 211; Selmin Kangal, ed.,The Sultan’s Portrait: Picturing the House of Osman
(Istanbul:ǏIşbank, 2000), 22–61.
On early construction of Muscovite ideology: Donald G. Ostrowski,Muscovy and the
Mongols: Cross-cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304– 1589 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998); Gustave Alef,“The Adoption of the Muscovite
Two-Headed Eagle: A Discordant View,” Speculum 41 (1966): 1–21; Nancy
S. Kollmann,“The Cap of Monomakh,”in Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger,
eds.,Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture(New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 2008), 38–41 and Illus. 7.1. A translation of the“Tale of the Princes
of Vladimir”: J. V. Haney,“Moscow: Second Constantinople, Third Rome or Second
Kiev? The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir,”Canadian Slavic Studies3 (1968): 354–67.
On boyar genealogies, see myKinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite
Political System, 1345– 1547 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987); Sergei
Bogatyrev,“Ivan the Terrible Discovers the West: The Cultural Transformation of
Autocracy during the Early Northern Wars,”Russian History34, nos. 1–4 (2007):
161 – 88.156 The Russian Empire 1450– 1801