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Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Robyn Adams

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

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  2. Rosanna Cox

    1. University of Kent, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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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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.

Reviews

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

inventive ways." - Renaissance Quarterly

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Robyn Adams

  • University of Kent, UK

    Rosanna Cox

About the editors

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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