...Catherine Keen Abstract This essay uses Bruno Latour’s model of diplomacy from An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME), alongside the networks/worknets of actor-network theory, to discuss how the medieval Italian writers Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri explore experiences of political...

... of diplomatic encounters on a flat, nonhierarchical plane: “an altogether singular form of ‘diplomacy’” that would grant all the modes of existence equal access to being and that would allow all the “institutions” to which those modes correspond (“both science and religion, politics and management, literature...

... no arts degree, I had considered the possibility of ­doing a doctorate in international law and working for Belgian diplomacy rather than for French publishers, but my literary vocation eventually spoke against it. I had discovered by chance, through Michel Butor, that North American universities and some...

... l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2008. Hampton, Timothy. Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Harf-Lancner, Laurence, Laurence Mathey-Maille, and Michelle Szkilnik. Ovide Metamorphose: les lecteurs medievaux d'Ovide. Paris: Presses Sorbonne...

...); Brussels, BR 3732 (1443); and Vat. Reg. lat. 765. For details, see Jung 566. Translations are my own unless otherwise noted. 5. On Latour’s notion of diplomacy, see Catherine Keen’s essay in this volume. 6. According to the Robert E. Lewis and Hans Kurath’s Middle English Dictionary...

... de Joy et Sor de Plazer, "Brother of Joy and Sister of Pleasure," both present a male protagonist largely overshadowed by a parrot who serves as his factotum, especially in situations requiring diplomacy and courtship.3 By turns subordinate and managerial, merely repetitive and wildly imaginative...

... of Friendship 155 many interventions in po­litic­ al debate over this brief period of exhilaration, Sand s strategy was, we might say, one of friendly diplomacy. Indeed, taking on the role of character witness for the peuple, she sought not only to keep the peace, but to invest a fragile social contract...

... to that question by developing a mode of ontological diplomacy—between, and then through, different modes of existence. None of these modes, defined by Latour as “regimes of truth” (“Biography” 287), should be subjected to the logic of another, for this would conflate the distinct concerns of each; together...