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After Lavinia : a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy /

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 th...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Watkins, John, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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