Kurztext

This book offers an original approach to late Roman/early Byzantine diplomacy as a system. Assessing both official and clandestine perspectives, Ekaterina Nechaeva examines the working mechanisms of this diplomatic machine and reveals the 'block' organization of embassies as a basic feature of international communication. Negotiations were split into several phases and accompanied by elaborate protocol and rich ceremony. Gift exchange and the distribution of insignia comprised a vital part of the diplomatic process. What were the semantics of these symbolic acts? The study accents the status significance of such donations. Ambassadors, who embodied high-level diplomacy, delivered gifts, led talks, and mediated international dialogue. Who were these envoys? How dangerous and adventurous were their missions? What were these expeditions like? How did they travel and how far? Nechaeva scrutinizes these and further questions by investigating the practices of ambassadorial business. Throughout the book the analysis of secret negotiations, the intelligence system and spy activities of envoys, plots and political murders reveals the shadowy side of diplomacy.

Rezensionen

"N. provides an encompassing and in-depth survey of the evidence for the mechanisms of late antique diplomacy, which will be of immense use for every future study on the topic."
Wolfgang Havener, Ancient West and East 15, 2016

"Nechaeva’s book is an admirably informed and informative text."
Réka Forrai, Medievo greco 16, 2016

"The book is an important contribution to late antique diplomatic history and will be essential to anyone studying Roman-Persian relations in particular."
Geoffrey B. Greatrex, Sehepunkte 14, 2014/9

Dieser Band wurde außerdem rezensiert von:

Alexander Rubel, Arheologia Moldovei 41, 2018

Hartmut Leppin, Historische Zeitschrift 305, 2017/1

Avshalom Landiado, Latomus, 2016/4

Alexander Sarantis, Journal of Roman Studies 106, 2016

Sylvain Destephen, L’Antiquité Classique 84, 2015

Audrey Becker, Revue des Études Anciennes 117, 2015/2

Hervé Huntzinger, Bonner Jahrbücher 215, 2015

Autoren

• Ethnic Constructs, Royal Dynasties and Historical Geography around the Black Sea Littoral (Band 43)
• Nachhaltigkeit in der Antike (Band 42)
• Der Kaiser und die Katastrophe (Band 41)
• In Mauretaniae maritimis (Band 40)
• Pylos und sein Heer (Band 39)
• Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten (Band 38)
• Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought (Band 36)
• The Inland Seas (Band 35)
• Pannonia, Dacia and Moesia in the Ancient Geographical Sources (Band 34)
• Between kingdom and "koinon" (Band 33)
• Landscape Dynamics and Settlement Patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Byzantine Period (Band 32)
• Mobilität in den Kulturen der antiken Mittelmeerwelt (Band 31)
• Embassies – Negotiations – Gifts (Band 30)
• Space, Place and Identity in Northern Anatolia (Band 29)
• Die Schätze der Erde – Natürliche Ressourcen in der antiken Welt (Band 28)
• Plenum exiliis mare (Band 27)
• Die Landschaft und die Religion (Band 26)
• Im Inneren Germaniens (Band 25)
• Antike Erdbeben im alpinen und zirkumalpinen Raum
  Earthquakes in Antiquity in the Alpine and Circum-alpine Region (Band 24)
• Verkehrswege der Argolis (Band 23)
• Die Umweltkrise des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. im Nordwesten des Imperium Romanum (Band 22)
• „Troianer sind wir gewesen“ – Migrationen in der antiken Welt (Band 21)
• Imus ad villam (Band 20)
• Insularität und Gesellschaft in der Antike (Band 19)
• L’idea di Città in Libanio (Band 18)
• Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums 7, 1999 (Band 17)
• Die Römer und der Wald (Band 16)
• Phasis (Band 15)
• Taprobane im Wandel der Zeit (Band 14)
• Hellenistische Terrakotten aus Amisos (Band 13)
• Augusteische Oikumenegeographie und Universalhistorie im Werk Strabons von Amaseia (Band 12)
• Südgallien im 1. Jh. v. Chr. (Band 11)
• Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur historischen Geographie des Altertums 6,1996. (Band 10)
• Erdbeben. Das aussergewöhnliche Normale (Band 9)