Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600 / / ed. by Franz-Julius Morche, Hilde Weerdt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Blockmans, Wim,; Bossler, Beverly,; De Weerdt, Hilde,; Ebrey, Patricia,; Genet, Jean-Philippe,; Gowers, Bernard,; Grévin, Benoît,; Hang, Tsui Lik,; Haseldine, Julian,; Hymes, Robert,; Lamouroux, Christian,; Levine, Ari Daniel,; Meserve, Margaret,; Ming Kin, Chu,; Morche, Franz-Julius,; Ronconi, Filippo,; Song, Chen,; Watts, John,; Whittow, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Morche, Franz-Julius,; Weerdt, Hilde,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650 ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (634 p.)

Based on a collaboration between historians of Chinese and European politics, this volume offers a first comprehensive overview of current research on political communication in middle-period European and Chinese history. The chapters present new work on the sources and processes of political communication in European and Chinese history partly through juxtaposing and combining formerly separate historiographies and partly through direct comparison. Contrary to earlier comparative work on empires and state formation, which aimed to explain similarities and differences with encompassing models and new theories of divergence, the goal is to further conversations between historians by engaging regional historiographies from the bottom up.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Communication and the Formation of Polities -- 1. Towards a Comparative History of Political Communication, c.1000-1500 -- 2. Administrative Elites and Political Change -- 2.1 Fragmentation and Financial Recentralization -- 2.2 Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’ -- 3. Language and Political Communication in France and England (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries) -- Part II. Letters and Political Languages -- 4. Political Communications, Networks, and Textual Evidence -- 5. Latin and Classical Chinese Epistolographic Communication in Comparative Perspective -- 6 Yao Mian’s Letters -- Part III. Communication and Political Authority -- 7. Communication and Empire -- 8. Giving the Public Due Notice in Song China and Renaissance Rome -- 9. The Printers’ Networks of Chen Qi (1186– 1256) and Robert Estienne (1503–1559) -- Part IV. Memory and Political Imaginaries -- 10. Letters and Parting Valedictions -- 11. Yue Fei and Thomas Becket -- 12. Imaginaries of Empire and Memories of Collapse -- Epilogues -- 1. Communication Breakthroughs -- 2. Thoughts on the Problem of Historical Comparison between Europe and China -- List of Contributors -- Index