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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Origins
- 1. After Rome
- 2. Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society
- 3. From Chronicle to Romance
- Part Two. Wanings
- 4. Marriage Diplomacy, Print, and the Reformation
- 5. Shakespeare's Adumbrations of State-Based Diplomacy
- 6. Divas and Diplomacy in Seventeenth- Century France
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index