Date: 2022
Type: Article
Lands of frosts and great beasts : Poland and Lithuania in the accounts of papal and Venetian diplomats
Diplomatica, 2022, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 180-199
KUCHNO, Klaudia Ewelina, Lands of frosts and great beasts : Poland and Lithuania in the accounts of papal and Venetian diplomats, Diplomatica, 2022, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 180-199
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74931
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As surprising as it may seem at the first sight, one of the most detailed fragments of a diplomatic report summarizing a mission to Poland and Lithuania written in 1572 by a secretary of a papal nuncio dealt with an animal – the European bison. In fact, representations of nature were omnipresent in sixteenth-century papal and Venetian diplomatic accounts about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The main aim of this article is to demonstrate how and why climate, landscapes, natural resources, and animals came to be an important part of early modern diplomatic communication.
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Published online: 26 August 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74931
Full-text via DOI: 10.1163/25891774-bja10083
ISSN: 2589-1766; 2589-1774
Publisher: Brill
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