Netherlands: Brill, Date: 2011. From the Ottoman Empire and its heritage series.Contains 1098 pages includes 49 pages of illustrations and maps book is nearing fine condition. No dustwrapper believed as issued. Heavy book 2kg with sound packaging EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED FOR OVERSEAS. SEE IMAGES, EXTRA IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.This is an extensive study, supplemented by an edition of relevant sources, of the diplomatic contacts between Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate between the early 15th and the late 18th century. It contains a chronology of mutual relations, a formal analysis of various types of documents, and a glimpse into the working of the Crimean chancery, where Genghisid and Islamic forms mixed with those borrowed from Christian Europe.The book provides a fascinating insight into the intercultural exchange between Catholic Poland (with Latin and then Polish as the main chancery This is an extensive study, supplemented by an edition of relevant sources, of the diplomatic contacts between Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate between the early 15th and the late 18th century. It contains a chronology of mutual relations, a formal analysis of various types of documents, and a glimpse into the working of the Crimean chancery, where Genghisid and Islamic forms mixed with those borrowed from Christian Europe.The book provides a fascinating insight into the intercultural exchange between Catholic Poland (with Latin and then Polish as the main chancery language) ...