Communication and Conflict: Italian Diplomacy in the Early Renaissance, 1350-1520 - Rilegato

Lazzarini, Isabella

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ISBN 10: 0198727410 ISBN 13: 9780198727415

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2015

Riassunto

Diplomacy 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.

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Recensione:

[S]uccessfully deconstruct[s] the assumed causal connection between the emergence of diplomacy and modern states while emphasizing that the novelties of Renaissance diplomacy should be contextualized within contemporary values and understandings... A whole new generation of diplomatic historians as well as students at all levels of higher education will greatly benefit from the new research directions (Yasir Yilmaz, Journal of Early Modern History)

Communication and Conflict is a wonderful and thought-provoking book: it should be essential reading in and beyond the community of scholars working on this topic. (Catherine Fletcher, Reviews in History)

Isabella Lazzarini offers a new take on the issue of modern diplomacys emergence in late medieval Europe. (Emrah Safa Gürkan, OTTOMAN STUDIES)

L'autore:

Isabella Lazzarini studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and became Professor of Medieval History at the University of Molise. Her research interests focus on the political, social, and cultural history of late medieval Italy, with an emphasis on Renaissance diplomacy and the growth of different political languages in documentary sources.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0198727410
• ISBN 13: 9780198727415
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 338