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.
Author(s): Robyn Adams, Rosanna Cox
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 200
Tags: Международные отношения;Дипломатическая и консульская служба;Дипломатическая и консульская служба зарубежных стран;
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1 'Procure as many as you can and send them over': Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760......Page 26
2 Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad......Page 43
3 Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham......Page 59
4 A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence......Page 76
5 Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy......Page 95
6 Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England......Page 114
7 Francis Bacon's Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing......Page 133
8 Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson's Masques......Page 151
9 The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing......Page 168
10 The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control......Page 185
Index......Page 202
