The Matrioshka Principle and Its Discontents

Z. Biedermann
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Chapter 3 explains on what grounds Lankan rulers remained committed to the idea of co-opting the Portuguese through tributary diplomacy, against the backdrop of a growing regional conflict involving the Muslim Mappilas of South India. Negotiations culminated in 1542 with the reception in Lisbon of an embassy sent by king Bhuvanekabāhu VII of Kōṭṭe to John III of Portugal. In addition to a magnificent ivory casket, significant archival materials survive today to give us a detailed picture of how the inter-imperial deal was imagined in the Lankan capital along the lines of the principle of nesting empires, the ‘Matrioshka principle’. These papers also show the limitations of the conversation. A picture emerges that is at once astounding in the way it contains two very different but commensurable imperial models, and ominous in the way these two models do not quite talk to each other in the way the elite of Kōṭṭe expected.
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第三章解释了在涉及南印度穆斯林马皮拉人的地区冲突日益加剧的背景下,斯里兰卡统治者坚持通过朝贡外交拉拢葡萄牙人的理由。谈判在1542年达到高潮,在里斯本接待了Kōṭṭe国王Bhuvanekabāhu七世派往葡萄牙约翰三世的大使馆。除了一个华丽的象牙棺材外,保存至今的重要档案材料为我们提供了一幅详细的画面,让我们了解到在斯里兰卡首都,帝国间的交易是如何按照“Matrioshka原则”的原则进行的。这些文件也显示了对话的局限性。一幅令人震惊的画面出现了,因为它包含了两种截然不同但却可以通约的帝国模式,而这两种模式并不像Kōṭṭe精英所期望的那样相互交流,这是一种不祥的预兆。
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