01174nas 2200349-a 450 991067233520332120230321211021.0(CKB)110994177251094(CONSER)sn-90099901-(EXLCZ)9911099417725109419890926a19899999 k-- aengTelegram & gazette[electronic resource]Worcester, Mass. Worcester Telegram & Gazette1989-1 online resourceOn Sundays published as: Sunday telegram.Issued in morning and evening eds.Print version: Telegram & gazette. 1050-4184 (DLC)sn 90099901 (OCoLC)20398430 Telegram and gazetteSunday telegramTELEGRAM AND GAZETTEWORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTEWorcester Telegram & Gazette (Mass.)Worcester (Mass.)NewspapersMassachusettsWorcesterfastWorcester (Mass.)NewspapersNewspapers.fastJOURNAL9910672335203321exl_impl conversionTelegram & gazette2294874UNINA03633nam 2200589 450 991079295170332120230126215253.01-5017-0851-11-5017-0852-X10.7591/9781501708527(CKB)3710000001387941(MiAaPQ)EBC4865273(StDuBDS)EDZ0001804037(OCoLC)961388475(MdBmJHUP)muse57134(DE-B1597)492930(DE-B1597)9781501708527(Au-PeEL)EBL4865273(CaPaEBR)ebr11389783(CaONFJC)MIL1012460(EXLCZ)99371000000138794120170620h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAfter Lavinia a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy /John WatkinsIthaca, [New York] ;London, [England] :Cornell University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (274 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.1-5017-0757-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThe 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 literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book's second half, he follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Watkins argues that the plays of Corneille and Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.MarriagePolitical aspectsEuropeHistoryArranged marriageEuropeHistoryDiplomacyHistoryEuropeSocial life and customsHistoryMarriagePolitical aspectsHistory.Arranged marriageHistory.DiplomacyHistory.306.81094Watkins John1960-1515663MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792951703321After Lavinia3751574UNINA01075nam0 22002891i 450 UON0048874020231205105322.81788-8325-006-020180524d1999 |0itac50 baitaIT|||| |||||Leonardo Sciascialo stemma di RacalmutoGaspare GiudiceNapoliL'ancora del Mediterraneo1999158 p.21 cm.001UON000679482001 ˆGli ‰alberi7SCIASCIA LEONARDOUONC093768FIITNapoliUONL000012850.92Letteratura italiana. 2000-21GIUDICEGaspareUONV228711167491L'ancora del mediterraneoUONV259398650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00488740SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI FS 07184 SI FP 15102 5 Leonardo Sciascia481071UNIOR