Courtly encounters : translating courtliness and violence in early modern Eurasia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at these in...

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