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NARRATIVES OF KINGSHIP IN EURASIAN EMPIRES
Book Title Narratives Of Kingship In Eurasian Empires
Book AuthorRichard van Leeuwen
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Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300–1800 By Richard van Leeuwen

NARRATIVES OF KINGSHIP IN EURASIAN EMPIRES

Book’s Introduction

In general, the study of history can be meaningful only if embedded in well-defined frameworks. These frameworks can, for instance, be temporal, geographical/spatial, disciplinary, or discursive. If the scope of the framework is widened, the field of research will automatically split up to become a cluster of subordinated histories, which interact and coalesce around specific centres, boundaries, periods, and source types.

These divisions and the representation of history as consisting of various components become inevitable for the construction of a meaningful historical narrative, which conveys the idea that the course of history can be comprehended and interpreted. It is the only way in which history can be useful as the basis of a worldview, a view of the present and a sense of the future.

 Still, the nature and rationale of the division into components and the differentiating boundaries, as they are defined within disciplinary paradigms, can and will be questioned, challenged, and revised in order to find new and illuminating interactions and coherences.

This book emerged in the context of a research programme aimed at transcending well-entrenched disciplinary demarcations and matrices of analyses of historical processes.

The programme, ‘Eurasian empires. Integration processes and identity formation, 1300–1800’, was set up to examine developments in a historical field that is, both temporally and spatially, vast and to identify parallels hitherto largely obscured by all kinds of disciplinary and thematic boundaries.1

Evidently, such a broad approach presents many theoretical and methodological challenges, drawing researchers out of their comfort zones and forcing them to see their material in a new light.

This process may be highly rewarding, of course, when new connections and relationships are revealed, but the results may be confined to tentative and speculative conclusions since the research has departed from familiar interpretive frameworks.

The more historical research is stretched over time and space, the more difficult it is to construct a coherent framework in which connections and parallels become meaningful and convincing.

These remarks are perhaps even more relevant for research into the history of culture and literature. Although developments within these fields are obviously linked to the historical processes in which they are embedded, they are

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