The ambassadors : from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the men who introduced the world to itself / Jonathan Wright
2006, First U.S. edition. Orlando : Harcourt. 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. Item #335285
ISBN: 9780151011117
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.
Price: €10.95