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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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
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