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After Lavinia

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

After Lavinia

By John Watkins

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About the book

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 their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and l...Show more

Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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9781501707575

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

After Lavinia

Format

Hardcover

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