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This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which 'women above stairs' influenced the politics and culture of their times.

The dynastic centre and the provinces were linked by agents and ritual occasions. This book includes contributions by specialists examining these connections in late imperial China, early modern Europe, and the Ottoman empire, suggesting important revisions and an agenda for comparison.This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access

The Key to Power? studies the notion of 'access to the ruler' from a wide variety of perspectives and discusses its significance for the study of power relations in late medieval and early modern courts.