After Lavinia : a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy

After Lavinia : a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy / John Watkins.

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed th...

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Main Author: Watkins, John, 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Marriage > Political aspects > Europe > History.
Arranged marriage > Europe > History.
Diplomacy > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Arranged marriage
Diplomacy
Manners and customs
Europe > Social life and customs > History.
Europe
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The voice of lavinia
  • Origins
  • After Rome: interdynastic marriage during the first Christian centuries
  • Interdynastic marriage, religious conversion, and the expansion of diplomatic society
  • From chronicle to romance: interdynastic marriage in the High Middle Ages
  • Wanings
  • Marriage diplomacy, print, and the reformation
  • Shakespeare's adumbrations of state-based diplomacy
  • Divas and diplomacy in seventeenth-century France.

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