Sublime Diplomacy: Byzantine, Early Modern, Contemporary

Iver B. Neumann

DOI:10.1177/03058298060340030201

Corpus ID: 144773343

Sublime Diplomacy: Byzantine, Early Modern, Contemporary

@article{Neumann2006SublimeDB,
  title={Sublime Diplomacy: Byzantine, Early Modern, Contemporary},
  author={Iver B. Neumann},
  journal={Millennium - Journal of International Studies},
  year={2006},
  volume={34},
  pages={865 - 888}
}

Iver B. Neumann

Published 2006

Sociology

Millennium - Journal of International Studies

There are three main periods when the sublime has been theorised: antiquity, the eighteenth century, and the present. Using exemplary texts from each period as a baseline, the article investigates to what extent we may say that diplomacy is sublime by the lights of its own contemporary standards. The first main part reads Byzantine diplomacy as sublime in the sense discussed by Longinus in Peri hupsous. The key was to sublimate barbarian envoys to the glory of the Empire and, ultimately, God by… CONTINUE READING

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