• Book Award
CFP: Staging the Truce in Early Modern History and Literature
Submitted by ccarlin on 23 March 2017 - 10:44amUniversité Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 27th October 2017. (deadline: 1st June 2017)
Timothy Hampton reprises Grotius’ definition of truce as “the slumber of war” to show how early modern European playwrights staged that moment of negotiation as a paradox, as “an action that spends action, and by that very gesture reinstates power as potentiality” (Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power, Palgrave, 2016, 28). A truce is thus a true moment of action, but an action that runs in parallel to a continuing state of war.