LEADER 03666nam 2200601 450 001 9910466225803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0851-1 010 $a1-5017-0852-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501708527 035 $a(CKB)3710000001387941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4865273 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001804037 035 $a(OCoLC)961388475 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57134 035 $a(DE-B1597)492930 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501708527 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4865273 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11389783 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1012460 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001387941 100 $a20170620h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfter Lavinia $ea literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy /$fJohn Watkins 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-5017-0757-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Origins -- $t1. After Rome -- $t2. Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society -- $t3. From Chronicle to Romance -- $tPart Two. Wanings -- $t4. Marriage Diplomacy, Print, and the Reformation -- $t5. Shakespeare's Adumbrations of State-Based Diplomacy -- $t6. Divas and Diplomacy in Seventeenth- Century France -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aMarriage$xPolitical aspects$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aArranged marriage$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aDiplomacy$xHistory 607 $aEurope$xSocial life and customs$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMarriage$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aArranged marriage$xHistory. 615 0$aDiplomacy$xHistory. 676 $a306.81094 700 $aWatkins$b John$f1960-$0918875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466225803321 996 $aAfter Lavinia$92469580 997 $aUNINA