After Lavinia

After Lavinia

by Watkins, John

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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 their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This volume traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production…

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  • Full title :After Lavinia / John Watkins.

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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 their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This volume traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2017

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Previously issued in print: 2017.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (274 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1501708511, 9781501708510, 150170852X, 9781501708527
  • oclc:on1154903624
  • LC Classification:HQ611
  • Dewey Decimal:306.81094

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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Subjects

Arranged marriage Arranged marriage -- History. -- Europe Diplomacy Diplomacy -- History Diplomatie -- Histoire Europe Europe -- Mœurs et coutumes Europe -- Social life and customs History Manners and customs Mariage -- Aspect politique -- Europe Mariage arrangé -- Histoire. -- Europe Marriage -- Political aspects -- Europe

Writers

Watkins, John

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