Diplomats And Diplomacy In The Roman World

Author : Claude Eilers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004170988

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Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World by Claude Eilers Pdf

The Roman world was fundamentally a face-to-face culture, where it was expected that communication and negotiations would be done in person. This can be seen in Romea (TM)s contacts with other cities, states, and kingdoms a " whether dependent, independent, friendly or hostile a " and in the development of a diplomatic habit with its own rhythms and protocols that coalesced into a self-sustaining system of communication. This volume of papers offers ten perspectives on the way in which ambassadors, embassies, and the institutional apparatuses supporting them contributed to Roman rule. Understanding Roman diplomatic practices illuminates not only questions about Romea (TM)s evolution as a Mediterranean power, but can also shed light on a wide variety of historical and cultural trends. Contributors are: Sheila L. Ager, Alexander Yakobson, Filippo Battistoni, James B. Rives, Jean-Louis Ferrary, Martin Jehne, T. Corey Brennan, Werner Eck, and Rudolf Haensch.

Author : Tracey A. Sowerby,Jan Hennings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351736916

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Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 by Tracey A. Sowerby,Jan Hennings Pdf

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history. Divided into three parts, it provides an examination of diplomatic culture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century and presents the development of diplomatic practices as more complex, multifarious and globally interconnected than the traditional state-focussed, national paradigm allows. The volume addresses three central and intertwined themes within early modern diplomacy: who and what could claim diplomatic agency and in what circumstances; the social and cultural contexts in which diplomacy was practised; and the role of material culture in diplomatic exchange. Together the chapters provide a broad geographical and chronological presentation of the development of diplomatic practices and, through a strong focus on the processes and significance of cultural exchanges between polities, demonstrate how it was possible for diplomats to negotiate the cultural codes of the courts to which they were sent. This exciting collection brings together new and established scholars of diplomacy from different academic traditions. It will be essential reading for all students of diplomatic history.

Author : Paul J. Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139501866

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Friendship and Empire by Paul J. Burton Pdf

In this bold new interpretation of the origins of ancient Rome's overseas empire, Dr Burton charts the impact of the psychology, language and gestures associated with the Roman concept of amicitia, or 'friendship'. The book challenges the prevailing orthodox Cold War-era realist interpretation of Roman imperialism and argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle. Using a constructivist theoretical framework drawn from international relations, Dr Burton replaces the modern scholarly fiction of a Roman empire built on networks of foreign clients and client-states with an interpretation grounded firmly in the discursive habits of the ancient texts themselves. The results better account for the peculiar rhythms of Rome's earliest period of overseas expansion - brief periods of vigorous military and diplomatic activity, such as the rolling back of Seleucid power in Asia Minor and Greece in 192–188 BC, followed by long periods of inactivity.

Author : Tracey A. Sowerby,Joanna Craigwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192572639

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Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World by Tracey A. Sowerby,Joanna Craigwood Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will shape future research in the field. Contributions focus on three intimately related areas: the impact of diplomatic protocol on literary production; the role of texts in diplomatic practice, particularly those that operated as 'textual ambassadors'; and the impact of changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy; simultaneously literary depictions of diplomacy and international law provided genre-shaped places for cultural reflection on the rapidly changing and expanding diplomatic sphere. Translations exemplify the potential of literary texts both to provoke competition and to promote cultural convergence between political communities, revealing the existence of diplomatic third spaces in which ritual, symbolic, or written conventions and semantics converged despite particular oppositions and differences. The increasing public consumption of diplomatic material in Europe illuminates diplomatic and literary communities, and exposes the translocal, as well as the transnational, geographies of literary-diplomatic exchanges. Diplomatic texts possessed symbolic capital. They were produced, archived, and even redeployed in creative tension with the social and ceremonial worlds that produced them. Appreciating the generic conventions of specific types of diplomatic texts can radically reshape our interpretation of diplomatic encounters, just as exploring the afterlives of diplomatic records can transform our appreciation of the histories and literatures they inspired.

Author : Robert A. Graham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401510233

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The Rise of the Double Diplomatic Corps in Rome by Robert A. Graham Pdf

So many books, monographs and articles have been written around the "Roman Question" that a word of explanation or even of apology for the present study may be called for. Before as well as after 1929, the year in which the Lateran Treaty declared resolved the conflict which had divided Italy and the Papacy for nearly sixty years, professors and their students in a dozen lands have one after the other committed to the learned world their particular analysis of the international position of the Papacy. The variety of opinions which can be found in these studies is itself a remarkable testimony to the unique cha racter of the Holy See in the modern organization of international society. Even today, more than two decades after the dispute between the Quirinal and the Vatican had been finally resolved, it cannot be said that perfect uniformity of views yet prevails among writers in international law. Even today, when partisan passions have had time to cool and to leave the court clear for objective studies, there are many questions that cannot be adequately explained by any of the conventional criteria. Perhaps, indeed, the reason for the apparent futility of many of these writings has been the belief that the Papacy could really be forced into everyone of the categories developed by modern international law.

Author : Paul J. Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 1139190016

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Friendship and Empire by Paul J. Burton Pdf

Argues that language and ideals contributed just as much to Roman empire-building as military muscle.

Author : Ekaterina Nechaeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 3515108017

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Embassies , Negotiations , Gifts by Ekaterina Nechaeva Pdf

Author : Catherine Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107793

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Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome by Catherine Fletcher Pdf

The first comprehensive study of Renaissance diplomacy for sixty years, focusing on Europe's most important political centre, Rome, between 1450 and 1530.

Author : Andrew Fenton Cooper,Jorge Heine,Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199588862

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy by Andrew Fenton Cooper,Jorge Heine,Ramesh Thakur Pdf

Including chapters from some of the leading experts in the field this Handbook provides a full overview of the nature and challenges of modern diplomacy and includes a tour d'horizon of the key ways in which the theory and practice of modern diplomacy are evolving in the 21st Century.

Author : Tethloach Ruey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668525641

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The History of Diplomacy and the Ancient Greek, Italian, Roman and French Diplomatic Traditions by Tethloach Ruey Pdf

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Miscellaneous, grade: A, Atlantic International University, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes the history of diplomacy and the ancient Greek, Italian, Roman and French diplomatic traditions, and argues that modern diplomacy evolved out of the ancient traditions. The object of this essay is to inform practitioners and students of diplomacy about the development of diplomacy because the conduct of diplomacy is best understood when studied in the light of its historical roots.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004334809

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The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire by Anonim Pdf

The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility and deportations.

Author : M.S. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317894018

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The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450 - 1919 by M.S. Anderson Pdf

Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied, little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins, development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the larger ideas and aspirations of international diplomacy that gradually emerged from its immediate functions. This impressive survey, written by one of our most experienced international historians, and covering the 500 years in which European diplomacy was largely a world to itself, triumphantly fills that gap.

Author : Markus Mösslang,Torsten Riotte
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131670411

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The Diplomats' World by Markus Mösslang,Torsten Riotte Pdf

"This volume provides an original perspective on diplomacy and diplomatic practice between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. By focusing on cultural dimensions, The Diplomats' World aims to give a broader picture of diplomacy than usual. While most modern works on foreign affairs concentrate on the functional role of diplomacy and marginalize the nature of diplomatic services, this volume links form and content, presenting diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. Drawing on the diplomats' many and varied encounters between their own individual and professional circles and the 'wider world', it discusses diplomatic history as part of the cultural history of politics. Among the topics covered are the operating norms of the diplomatic establishment, the influence of the public sphere on the conduct of diplomacy, and the role of etiquette and protocol in diplomatic encounters."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Shepard,Simon Franklin
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002252667

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Byzantine Diplomacy by Jonathan Shepard,Simon Franklin Pdf

This book brings together papers arising from the 24th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held in Cambridge in 1990. It represents a comprehensive investigation of Byzantine diplomacy from the emergence of the empire in late antiquity to its final throes as it fell to the Ottoman Turks. This is not just a narrow study of political relations, but a broad sweep from Italy to the steppes of Central Asia, from the imperial court to the marriage bed, from the scriptorium to the barracks. The book also includes a mysterious communication from a long-dead emperor.

Author : R. James Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Parthia
ISBN : 0646457209

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Rome and Parthia by R. James Ferguson Pdf