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After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy
John Watkins
After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy
John Watkins
In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. In After Lavinia, John Watkins 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.
280 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 9, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781501707575 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 237 × 165 × 22 mm · 600 g |
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