Courtly Encounters
Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia
Nonfiction, History, Asian, India, Spain & Portugal, World History
| Author: | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | ISBN: | 9780674071681 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | October 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
| ISBN: | 9780674071681 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | October 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
