Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Robyn Adams, Rosanna Cox

   Pages 1-12

3. ‘Procure as many as you can and send them over’: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760

   • Peter Barber

   Pages 13-29

4. Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad

   • Jason Powell

   Pages 30-45

5. Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham

   • Stephen Alford

   Pages 46-62

6. A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence

   • Robyn Adams

   Pages 63-81

7. Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy

   • Joanna Craigwood

   Pages 82-100

8. Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England

   • James Daybell

   Pages 101-119

9. Francis Bacon’s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing

   • Alan Stewart

   Pages 120-137

10. Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Masques

    • Hannah J. Crawforth

    Pages 138-154

11. The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing

    • Mark Netzloff

    Pages 155-171

12. The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control

    • Nadine Akkerman

    Pages 172-188

13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-200

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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.

• Diplomacy
• Diplomat
• early modern period
• England
• international relations
• Renaissance
• British and Irish Literature

"These subjects are impressively diverse...It is exciting that the history of diplomacy is being revisited in such new and

inventive ways." - Renaissance Quarterly

• Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Robyn Adams

• University of Kent, UK

  Rosanna Cox

NADINE AKKERMAN Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands STEPHEN ALFORD Lecturer in Tudor History, University of Cambridge, UK PETER BARBER Head of Map Collections, British Library, UK HANNAH J. CRAWFORTH PhD candidate at Princeton University, USA JAMES DAYBELL Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth, UK JOANNA EASTWOOD PhD candidate at St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK DAVID HUMPHREY Senior Researcher in the Department of Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art, London, UK LISA JARDINE CBE Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK MARK NETZLOFF Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA JASON POWELL Assistant Professor at St. Joseph's University, USA ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA

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