The present volume brings together fourteen studies that deal with material culture in relation to diplomatic exchanges that marked a geographical area covering the Mediterranean area (Islamic East (mostly), Latin West and Byzantium),Cont and a period that corresponds to that of the amplification of these exchanges, that is to say between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries, and where the sources are more numerous. This volume is divided into three parts, each corresponding to one of the major aspects of the materiality of premodern diplomacy: embassies, gifts, and documents.
9 Gift Exchanges and Traces of Material Life in Mamluk Diplomacy : First Notes on Embassies from Egypt to Italy and Italian Missions to Cairo (1421-1512)
âBeatrice Saletti
10 Interpreting the Veneto-Mamluk Gift Exchanges of 1489-90
âJesse J. Hysell