The ambassadors : from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the men who introduced the world to itself / Jonathan Wright
Language: English
Published by Orlando : Harcourt, 2006
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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxiv, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index. Contents; Introduction -- "Glorious Hermes, herald of the deathless gods" -- Greeks and Indika -- A Sanskrit Machiavelli -- The son of heaven -- Charlemagne's elephant -- Byzantium -- The crown of thorns -- A rooftop in Naples : Europe and the Mongols -- The new diplomacy -- Reformation -- Schisms -- "An Iliad of miseries" : Europe and the Ottomans -- Wotton versus Sherley -- The physics of diplomacy. Subjects; Ambassadors History To 1500. Ambassadors History 16th century. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- The ambassadors : from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the men who introduced the world to itself / Jonathan Wright
- Author
- Wright, Jonathan (1969-)
- Publisher
- Orlando : Harcourt
- Publication year
- 2006
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151011117
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011117
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
What Europe still thinks of Asia and what Asia still thinks of Africa were in no small part kindled in these long-ago first encounters. From the cuneiform civilizations of the ancient Near East to the clashing empires of the early modern age, Wright brings alive the men who introduced the great cultures of the world to each other.
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