The reception of ambassadors at the court of the Paleologists through the sources: spaces, ritual and interests
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https://doi.org/10.24197/ehmm.11.2024.1-31Keywords:
Palaiologos, Constantinople, ambassador, Blachernae, ceremony, tripAbstract
This paper aims to analyse the different phases in which the reception of ambassadors into the imperial audiences of the last Palaiologos was divided. Besides explaining the spaces where the ceremonial was carried out, the interests that each of the parties had, the message that the imperial ostentation wanted to convey and the forms of entertainment and feast to get the favour of the potential allies’ representatives of an Empire that, more than ever, needed the assistance of the rest of Christendom for its survival. All this thanks to the invaluable source of information of travel literature composed by those ambassadors.
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