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After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

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After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy - Watkins, John
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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.

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After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy 2017, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9781501707575

Hardcover