After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy Watkins John Wydawca: Cornell University Press Data wydania: 2017 ISBN: 9781501707575 Liczba stron: 288 Format: 165 x 237 x 22 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.