After Lavinia: A Literary History Of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. 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.

• | Author: John Watkins
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: May 09, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501707574
• | ISBN-13: 9781501707575