Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 11
4. Introduction 13
5. Part I. Communication and the Formation of Polities
6. 1. Towards a Comparative History of Political Communication, c.1000-1500 35
7. 2. Administrative Elites and Political Change 101
8. 2.1 Fragmentation and Financial Recentralization 105
9. 2.2 Administrative Elites and the ‘First Phase of Byzantine Humanism’ 143
10. 3. Language and Political Communication in France and England (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries) 173
11. Part II. Letters and Political Languages
12. 4. Political Communications, Networks, and Textual Evidence 205
13. 5. Latin and Classical Chinese Epistolographic Communication in Comparative Perspective 239
14. 6 Yao Mian’s Letters 287
15. Part III. Communication and Political Authority
16. 7. Communication and Empire 315
17. 8. Giving the Public Due Notice in Song China and Renaissance Rome 345
18. 9. The Printers’ Networks of Chen Qi (1186– 1256) and Robert Estienne (1503–1559) 383
19. Part IV. Memory and Political Imaginaries
20. 10. Letters and Parting Valedictions 441
21. 11. Yue Fei and Thomas Becket 481
22. 12. Imaginaries of Empire and Memories of Collapse 523
23. Epilogues
24. 1. Communication Breakthroughs 573
25. 2. Thoughts on the Problem of Historical Comparison between Europe and China 597
26. List of Contributors 615
27. Index 619