Courtly Encounters Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia |
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| Author:
| Subrahmanyam, Sanjay |
| Series title: | Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-06705-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.