Empire and Power in the Reign of Suleyman : Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World (Paperback)

1. The formative years (1490?1523); 2. The secretary's progress (1523?34); 3. The empire and its chancellor (1534?53); 4. Toward the end (1553?67); 5. Narrating the empire: history-writing between imperial advocacy and personal testimony; 6. Imagining the empire: the sultan, the realm, the enemies; 7. Managing the empire: institutionalization and bureaucratic consciousness.