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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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2010

ISBN

9780230298125

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

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