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1 Dec 2016The 13 essays in this book are the outcome of a conference (with the addition of a few other papers) held at Winchester University in September 2011.
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25 Aug 2016In 1372 Renatus Malbecco, a Milanese ambassador, arrived in Avignon for a meeting with Pope Gregory XI. His embassy was evidently unwelcome: he was ‘received with insults’ and promptly sent away. An observing diplomat recounted this event in a couple of terse lines. A little over a century later it was the turn of Ludovico il Moro of Milan to dismiss a visiting envoy.