... for teaching him smart writing and thinking well. Mitchell Cohen learned his lesson. Peter Burke doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899796 John Watkins, After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), 274 pp. On the one hand, interdynastic marriage...

... on the interior life of her heroine limits explicit political commentary, her allusions to miserably unhappy queens-consort cast marriage diplomacy in an overwhelmingly negative light. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 peacemaking marriage diplomacy Madame de La Fayette Saint-Réal history...

... often tied to episodes of conflict and rivalry, from a longer-term perspective the usefulness of marriage as a means of securing and maintaining peace remained an important element of premodern diplomacy. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 peace marriage diplomacy Henry I Geoffrey...

... impresses. He thanks Irving Howe for teaching him smart writing and thinking well. Mitchell Cohen learned his lesson. Peter Burke doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899796 John Watkins, After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), 274 pp. On the one...

...Alexandra Walsham C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 5 8 dle Ages; how ideas of interdynastic marriage helped to construct a common European diplomatic culture; and how a devaluation of marriage diplomacy in the early modern period was occasioned by state centralization, the Protestant Reformation...

..., and the Middle East. His books include The Specter of Dido; Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England; After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy; and (with Carole Levin) Shakespeare s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identity in the Elizabethan Age. doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723366 ...

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... law. Hosea protests against this nat- ural tendency. He indeed issues a warning to his people: abandoning the God of Israel would be suicide. Hosea warns them that the link binding the Jews to Hashem is unique, an indissoluble bond like the marriage between Adam and Eve. Hence he urges them...

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