Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
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Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

About this book

Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by Lisa Jardine
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on the Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 ā€˜Procure as many as you can and send them overā€™: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460ā€“1760
  9. 2 Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad
  10. 3 Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham
  11. 4 A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence
  12. 5 Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy
  13. 6 Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England
  14. 7 Francis Baconā€™s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
  15. 8 Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonsonā€™s Masques
  16. 9 The Ambassadorā€™s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing
  17. 10 The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control
  18. Index