Download or read book Communication and Conflict written by Isabella Lazzarini and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World written by Dover Paul M. Dover and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in international relations, as it became impossible for monarchs to stay on top of the increasingly complex demands of ruling. Encompassing a variety of cultural and institutional settings, these essays examine how state secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic personnel and the information flows they generated. They explore how these officials balanced domestic matters with external concerns, and service to the monarch and state with personal ambition. By opening various perspectives on policy-making at the level just below the monarch, this volume offers up rich opportunities for comparative history and a new take on the diplomatic history of the period.

Download or read book Heraldry in Urban Society written by Marcus Meer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heraldry is often seen as a traditional prerogative of the nobility. But it was not just knights, princes, kings, and emperors who bore coats of arms to show off their status in the Middle Ages. The merchants and craftsmen who lived in cities, too, adopted coats of arms and used heraldic customs, including display and destruction, to underline their social importance and to communicate political messages. Medieval burgesses were part of a fascination with heraldry that spread throughout pre-modern society and looked at coats of arms as honoured signs of genealogy and history. Heraldry in Urban Society analyses the perceptions and functions of heraldry in medieval urban societies by drawing on both English- and German-language sources from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Despite variations that point to socio-political differences between cities (and their citizens) in the relatively centralized monarchy of medieval England and the more independent-minded urban governments found in the less closely connected Holy Roman Empire, urban heraldry emerges as a versatile and ubiquitous means of multimedia visual communication that spanned medieval Europe. Urban heraldic practices defy assumptions about clearly demarcated social practices that belonged to 'high'/'noble' as opposed to 'low'/'urban' culture. Townspeople's perceptions of coats of arms paralleled those of the nobility, as they readily interpreted and carefully curated them as visual expressions of identity. These perceptions allowed townspeople of all ranks, as well as noble outsiders, to use heraldry and its display - along with its defacement and destruction - in manuscripts, spaces (such as town houses, public monuments, halls, and churches), and performances (like processions and joyous entries) to address perennial problems of urban society in the Middle Ages. The coats of arms of burgesses, guilds, and cities were communicative means of individual and collective representation, social and political legitimization, conducting and resolving conflicts, and the pursuit of elevated status in the urban hierarchy. Likewise, heraldic communication negotiated the all-important relationship between the city and wider, extramural society - from the commercial interests of citizens to their collective ties to the ruler.

Download or read book Le verbe l image et les repr sentations de la soci t urbaine au Moyen Age written by Marc Boone and published by Garant. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Status Power and Identity in Early Modern France written by Jonathan Dewald and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

Download or read book La praxis municipale dans l Occident romain written by Laurent Lamoine and published by Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal. This book was released on 2010 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce volume est né de la collaboration entre deux équipes de chercheurs français e internationaux : l'une à Paris, qui appartient à l'UMR 8210 ANHIMA du CNRS, était codirigée par Clara Berrendonner et Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni (programme EMIRE), l'autre à Clermont-Ferrand, qui appartient au Centre d'Histoire "Espaces et Cultures" de l'Université Blaise-Pascal est cordonnée par Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni et Laurent Lamoine (programme "Les pouvoirs locaux depuis l'Antiquité"). La Praxis municipale dans l'Occident romain présente le bilan de trois années de recherches (2008-2010) sur le fonctionnement des cités locales de l'Occident durant le Haut-Empire avec des points de comparaison pris dans le monde grec et dans l'Europe médiévale. Le livre rassemble les résultats de la dernière rencontre du programme EMIRE (2009), dédiée à l'importance des sources littéraires dans la connaissance de l'administration locale, et des trois journées clermontoises (2008-2010) consacrées aux relations entre les pouvoirs locaux et les sanctuaires et à la place de l'écrit dans la pratique municipale

Download or read book Lieux de ville et identit written by Thierry Bulot and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Réunit des réflexions épistémologiques, conceptuelles et théoriques pour approcher au plus près les corrélations entre lieux, langues, discours, identité et espace urbain. Plusieurs villes de statut et d'importance divers sont ainsi évoquées : Marseille, Rouen, Bâle, Glasgow, Montpellier, Montréal ...

Download or read book Memoria communitas civitas written by Hanno Brand and published by Jan Thorbecke. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travers une serie de quinze contributions provenant de specialistes de differents pays europeens, le volume se propose d'aborder la memoire, comprise comme phenomene de groupes, dans les villes du Moyen Age. La comparaison d'exemples empruntes a divers pays d'Europe occidentale ( de l'Espagne a l'Allemagne et de l'Angleterre a l'Italie, en passant par les Pays-Bas et la France) met en evidence un nouvel aspect de l'importance generale du fait urbain dans la civilisation medievale, en meme temps qu'elle fait apparaitre toute la complexite de la memoire collective.

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Download or read book A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French written by R. Anthony Lodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.

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Download or read book Nations And States written by Hugh Seton-watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major book by one of the great political and social historians of our time is a study of the force of nationalism, a force that continues to shake our world. Reaching beyond nationalism as a doctrine, beyond the content, psychological origins, and analysis of that doctrine, the book represents and enquiry into all the important political move

Download or read book Urbanism As a Way of Life written by Louis Wirth and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: