Communication and conflict Italian diplomacy in the early Renaissance, 1350-1520 Italian diplomacy in the early Renaissance, 1350-1520 Lazzarini, Isabella creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2015 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. 'Communication and conflict' situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form. The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. I: THE FRAMEWORK -- II: DIPLOMACY AS A POLITICAL ACTION -- III: DIPLOMACY AS A PRACTICE -- IV: DIPLOMACY AS A POLITICAL LANGUAGE AND A CULTURAL PROCESS. Isabella Lazzarini. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-it--- Diplomatic and consular service, Italian History Italy Foreign relations 1268-1492 Italy Foreign relations 1492-1559 Service diplomatique et consulaire italien Histoire Italie Relations extérieures 1268-1492 Italie Relations extérieures 1492-1559 POLITICAL SCIENCE Government International POLITICAL SCIENCE International Relations General Diplomatic and consular service, Italian Diplomatic relations Italy 1268-1559 fast JZ1600 .L39 2015eb 327.45 Oxford studies in medieval European history 9780191040856 0191040851 9780191793530 0191793531 9780198727415 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/8036 N$T 150806 20260319161120.9 in00005712090 eng