Diplomacy and War in Later Fifteenth-century Italy
Author: Michael Edward Mallett
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 30
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Diplomacy and War in Later Fifteenth-century Italy
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Diplomacy
Author: Garrett Mattingly
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1605204706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1955 work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic traditions of civilized cultures-which have existed as far back as the records of human history extend-took a sharp turn that was the result of new power relations in the newly modern world. Mattingly believed these could be illustrative of how nations and traditions change...and that we might apply those lessons to our own rapidly changing global culture. Discover: [ the legal framework of Medieval diplomacy [ diplomatic practices in the 15th century [ the Italian beginnings of modern diplomacy [ precedents for resident embassies [ the dynastic power relations of European nations in the 16th century [ French diplomacy and the breaking-up of Christendom [ the Habsburg system [ early modern diplomacy [ and more. American scholar of European history GARRETT MATTINGLY (1900-1962) is also the author of Catherine of Aragon (1941) and the bestselling The Armada (1959), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France
Author: Christopher Allmand
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000-11-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1781386900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume portray the public life of late medieval France as that country established its position as a leader of western European society in the early modern world. A central theme is the contribution made by contemporary writers, chroniclers and commentators, such as Jean Froissart, William Worcester and Philippe de Commynes, to our understanding of the past. Who were they? What picture of their times did they present? Were their works intended to influence their contemporaries and what success did they enjoy? Other contributions deal with the exercise of political power, the relationship between the court and those in authority in far-flung reaches of the kingdom, and the role and status of the death penalty as deterrent, punishment and means of achieving justice.
European War and Diplomacy, 1337-1815
Author: William Young
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0595298745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of international relations and warfare of early modern Europe has gained popularity in recent years. This bibliography provides a valuable listing of books, dissertations, and journal articles in the English language for scholars and general readers interested in diplomatic relations and warfare from the Hundred Years' War to the Napoleonic Wars.
Communication and Conflict
Author: Isabella Lazzarini
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0198727410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. Communication and Conflict situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form. The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome
Author: Catherine Fletcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1107107792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of Renaissance diplomacy for sixty years, focusing on Europe's most important political centre, Rome, between 1450 and 1530.
Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453-1505
Author: Norman Housley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0199227055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Written by the leading expert on crusading in the late Middle Ages; covers crusading in a period that is generally neglected; contributes towards the study of interfaith relations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; advances our understanding of Europe's engagement with the Turkish problem through the early modern and modern periods; deepens our understanding of the values and debates of the Renaissance period"--From publisher's website.
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 7, C.1415-c.1500
Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1108
ISBN-13: 9780521382960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages. Often seen as a time of doubt, decline and division, the period is shown here as a period of considerable innovation and development, much of which resulted from a conscious attempt by contemporaries to meet the growing demands of society and to find practical solutions to the social, religious and political problems which beset it. The volume consists of four sections. Part I focuses on both the ideas and other considerations which guided men as they sought good government, and on the practical development of representation. Part II deals with aspects of social and economic development at a time of change and expansion. Part III discusses the importance of the life of the spirit: religion, education and the arts. Moving from the general to the particular, Part IV concerns itself with the history of the countries of Europe, emphasis being placed on the growth of the nation states of the 'early modern' world.
The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Author: William Reger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1317025334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of current debates, the chapters in this book break away from conventional historical conceptions of empire as an essentially western phenomenon with clear demarcation lines between the colonizer and the colonized. These are replaced here by much more fluid and subtle conceptions that highlight complex interplays between coalitions of rulers and ruled. In so doing, the volume builds upon recent work that increasingly suggests that empires simply could not exist without the consent of their imperial subjects, or at least significant groups of them. This was as true for the British Raj as it was for imperial China or Russia. Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire. They also reflect the scholarly contributions of the dedicatee, Geoffrey Parker, whose life and work are discussed in the introductory chapters and, we’re proud to say, in a delightful chapter by Parker himself, an autobiographical reflection that closes the book.
