Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600 (Paperback, 1)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION (Hilde DE WEERDT and Franz-Julius MORCHE), PART I: COMMUNICATION AND THE FORMATION OF POLITIES, 1 TOWARDS A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION, C.1000-1500 (Hilde DE WEERDT and John WATTS), 2 ADMINISTRATIVE ELITES AND POLITICAL CHANGE (Christian LAMOUROUX and Filippo RONCONI), 2.1 FRAGMENTATION AND FINANCIAL RECENTRALIZATION: THE EMERGENCE OF THE FOUR GENERAL COMMANDS (1127-1165) (Christian LAMOUROUX), 2.2 ADMINISTRATIVE ELITES AND THE 'FIRST PHASE OF BYZANTINE HUMANISM': THE ADOPTION OF THE MINUSCULE IN BOOK PRODUCTION AND THE ROLE OF THE STOUDIOS MONASTERY (Filippo RONCONI), 3 LANGUAGE AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND (TWELFTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES) (Jean-Philippe GENET), PART II: LETTERS AND POLITICAL LANGUAGES, 4 POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKS AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO WRITTEN SOURCES USING LETTER COLLECTIONS (Julian HASELDINE), 5 LATIN AND CLASSICAL CHINESE EPISTOLOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Beverly BOSSLER and Benoit GREVIN), 6 YAO MIAN'S LETTERS: THE EPISTOLARY NETWORKS OF A LATE SONG LITERATUS (Beverly BOSSLER), PART III: COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY, 7 COMMUNICATION AND EMPIRE: BYZANTIUM IN PERSPECTIVE (Mark WHITTOW (¿)), 8 GIVING THE PUBLIC DUE NOTICE IN SONG CHINA AND RENAISSANCE ROME (Patricia EBREY and Margaret MESERVE), 9 THE PRINTERS' NETWORKS OF CHEN QI (1186-1256) AND ROBERT ESTIENNE (1503-1559): A MICRO-COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO POLITICAL DEPENDENCE AND CENSORSHIP (CHU Ming Kin and Franz-Julius MORCHE), PART IV: MEMORY AND POLITICAL IMAGINARIES, 10 LETTERS AND PARTING VALEDICTIONS: ZHANG YU AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN MID-ELEVENTH-CENTURY SICHUAN (CHEN Song), 11 YUE FEI AND THOMAS BECKET: ELITE MASCULINITIES IN COMPARISON (Bernard GOWERS and TSUI Lik Hang), 12 IMAGINARIES OF EMPIRE AND MEMORIES OF COLLAPSE: PARALLEL NARRATIVES IN SOUTHERN SONG AND BYZANTINE COMMEMORATIONS OF CONQUERED CAPITALS (Ari Daniel LEVINE), EPILOGUES, 1 COMMUNICATION BREAKTHROUGHS: CONDITIONS AND CONSEQUENCES (Wim BLOCKMANS), 2 THOUGHTS ON THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN EUROPE AND CHINA (Robert HYMES), INDEX