Courtly Encounters

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Book Overview

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 interactions, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on the worlds of early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674067053
• ISBN13: 9780674067059
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.4"