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} }
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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