Rulers & Elites Comparative Studies in Govenıancr Series Editör Jeroen Duindam (Leiden University) Editorial Board Maaike van Berkel ( Radboud Universıty Nijmegcn) Yingcong Dai ( WilLiam Paterson Universıty, nj) Jean-Pascal Daloz (Universıty o f Strasbourg) Jos Gommans ( Leiden University) Jerome Kerlouegan (University o f Oxford) Dariusz Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw University) Metin Kunt (Sabancı University) VOLÜME 13 titles published in this series are listed at brill.conı/rulo