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Courtly encounters : translating courtliness and violence in early modern Eurasia /

Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Courtly Insults
  • 2. Courtly Martyrdom
  • 3. Courtly Representations
  • Conclusion: Difficult Junctions
  • Bibliography
  • Index