2. Bloodthirsty Emperors:

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Power Performed
6. 1. Performance and Competition of Kingship and Court in Le Voyage de Charlemagne à Jerusalem et à Constantinople 17
7. 2. Bloodthirsty Emperors: 30
8. 3. Maydān-i Naqsh-i Jahān 42
9. Part II. Persuasion
10. 4. Performances of Advice and Admonition in the Courts of Muslim Rulers of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 63
11. 5. Conversation as Performance 84
12. 6. Khālid Ibn Ṣafwān 100
13. Part III. Entertainment
14. 7. Performing Court Literature in Medieval Byzantium 121
15. 8. Error and the Abbasid Performer 142
16. 9. Cross- Gender “Acting” and Gender- Bending Rhetoric at a Princely Party 164
17. Part IV. Delight
18. 10. The Court Cuisine of Medieval Cyprus 179
19. 11. Mystical Poetics 196
20. 12. Chaste Lovers, Umayyad Rulers, and Abbasid Writers 215
21. Epilogue 243
22. Bibliography 247
23. List of Contributors 275
24. Index 279