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The ambassadors : from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the men who introduced the world to itself / Jonathan Wright.

by Wright, Jonathan, 1969-

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Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

Ambassadors -- History -- To 1500.

Ambassadors -- History -- 16th century.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033185.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005033185-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005033185-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2005033185-s.html

xxiv, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- "Glorious Hermes, herald of the deathless gods" -- Greeks and Indika -- A Sanskrit Machiavelli -- The son of heaven -- Charlemagne's elephant -- Byzantium -- The crown of thorns -- A rooftop in Naples : Europe and the Mongols -- The new diplomacy -- Reformation -- Schisms -- "An Iliad of miseries" : Europe and the Ottomans -- Wotton versus Sherley -- The physics of diplomacy.

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