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The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book's second half, he follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Watkins argues that the plays of Corneille and Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.

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Diplomacy

Modern history

Middle Ages

Diplomatie (homonymie)

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	09 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501708527
Langue	English

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q AFTER LAVINIA

AFTER LAVINIA A L I T E RARYHI STORY OFPRE MODE RNn MARRI AGEDI PLOMACY

J o h n W atk i n s

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Watkins, John, 1960– author. Title: After Lavinia : a literary history of premodern marriage diplomacy / John Watkins. Description: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016047310 (print) | LCCN 2016049375 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501707575 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501708510 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501708527 (pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Marriage—Political aspects—Europe— History. | Arranged marriage—Europe—History. | Europe—Social life and customs—History. | Diplomacy—History. Classification: LCC HQ611 .W38 2017 (print) | LCC HQ611 (ebook) | DDC 306.81094—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047310

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Voice of Lavinia

Pa r t O n e : O r i g i n s 1. After Rome: Interdynastic Marriage during the First Christian Centuries 2. Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society 3. From Chronicle to Romance: Interdynastic Marriage in the High Middle Ages Pa r t Tw o : W a n i n g s 4. Marriage Diplomacy, Print, and the Reformation 5. Shakespeare’s Adumbrations of StateBased Diplomacy 6. Divas and Diplomacy in Seventeenth Century France Conclusion

Notes 219 Bibliography 247 Index 267

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q A c k n o w l e d g m e nt s

This book has grown out of numerous con versations with scholars across the humanities and social sciences. The last decade or so has transformed diplomatic history into a richly speculative transdisciplinary investigation. Throughout that period I have been inspired, taught, admonished, and encouraged by my friends and colleagues in the vanguard of this enterprise, including Douglas Biow, Joanna Craigwood, Paul Dover, Timothy Hampton, Jan Hennings, Mark Netzloff, Jane O. New man, Toby Osborne, Diego Pirillo, Jason Powell, William Rossiter, Linda Shenk, and Tracey Sowerby. They rank among the most astute readers and listeners any scholar could desire. I have also profited from my long asso ciation with historians and literary critics working on European monarchy, and especially on queenship, such as Charles Beem, Ilona Bell, Anna Berto let, Denis Crouzet, Susan Doran, Helen Hackett, Thomas Herron, Carole Levin, Glenn Richardson, and Donald Stump. They will recognize imme diately how much this book owes to their collective reflections on the mar riage negotiations of Elizabeth I. I am also grateful to several other scholars of premodern history and literature for their friendship and kind support, including Colin Burrow, Eric Carlson, Patrick Cheney, Curtis Perry, Charles Ross, Susan Shapiro, Debora Shuger, James Simpson, and William Kennedy. I have learned much at the numerous academic conferences and research networks that have given an institutional form to the new diplomatic his tory. Several years ago, Carole Levin and Robert Buckholz invited me to give the keynote address at a queenship conference hosted by the University of Nebraska. That keynote, which the organizers published soon afterwards, turned out to be the first of my several attempts to make sense of the 1559 Peace of CateauCambrésis, and more generally of the cultural and literary aspects of interdynastic marriage. I returned to the many questions raised by CateauCambrésis in yet another keynote, this time for a diplomacy confer ence at Liverpool Hope University organized by Jason Powell and William Rossiter. Soon afterwards, I joined about fifteen other diplomacy scholars for a landmark workshop organized by Isabella Lazzarini, Stéphane Péquignot,

xACKNOWLEDGMENTS

and John Watts at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pasquale in Benasque, Spain. My work continued to develop at the workshops and con ferences hosted by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council Textual Ambassadors Network, a group convened by Tracey Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Finally, Jason Ditt mer and Fiona McConnell gave me an opportunity to deepen my project’s underpinnings in international relations theory by inviting me to speak at their AHRC Network on the Cultures of Diplomacy. This project has benefited greatly from the criticism I have received as a speaker at the International Medieval Studies Conference at the Medieval Institute of the University of Western Michigan, the Renaissance Society of America, the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Elizabeth I Society, and a conference on the history of France organized by Thomas Herron at Eastern Carolina University. Several institutions invited me to share my work as a guest lecturer, including the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies; Stanford University’s Center for European Studies; the University of California at Los Angeles; Queens University in Kingston, Ontario; the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley; the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Yale University’s Center for Histori cal Inquiry and the Social Sciences; the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol; and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford. I am especially grateful to my hosts: Philippe Buc, Barbara Fuchs, Bernard Gowers, Roland Greene, Timothy Hampton, Edward Holberton, Carole Levin, Ayesha Ramachandran, Charles Ross, and Asha Varadharajan. The University of Minnesota has been an ideal place to work on a project that crosses so many boundaries of time, place, and discipline. I have received advice and encouragement from my friends and colleagues in the depart ments of history, English, French and Italian, and religious studies and in the Center for Medieval Studies, Center for Early Modern History, and Center for the Study of the Premodern World: Bernard Bachrach, Daniel Brewer, Mary FranklinBrown, Siobhan Craig, Lianna Farber, Shirley Garner, Nita Krevens, Rebecca Krug, Patricia Lorcin, Michael Lower, Nabil Matar, Ellen MesserDavidow, Oliver Nicholson, Kay Reyerson, Andrew Scheil, Katherine Scheil, and Daniel Schroeter. Early in the project, Marguerite Ragnow, cura tor of the University of Minnesota’s James Ford Bell Library, opened up new worlds of inquiry by encouraging me to think more about the early Middle Ages. Nobody writing on premodern marriage could hope for a better, more knowledgeable colleague than Ruth Karras. Several scholars have read and commented on my research proposals, draft chapters, and finished manuscript: Michael Lower, Nicholas Paige,