Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600 /

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

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 commun...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (634 p.)
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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

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