Courtly Encounters - Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Subrahmanyam Sanjay
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674067059
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06705-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College; Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College; Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Geography, Europe, European History, Asia, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Asian History, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599