Diplomacy and early modern culture / edited by Robyn Adams, Rosanna Cox.
"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"--
| Uniform Title: | Early modern literature in history.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2011], ©2011.
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| Series: | Early modern literature in history.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Foreword / L. Jardine
- Introduction / R. Adams & R. Cox
- 'Procure as many as you can and send them over' : Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations 1460-1760 / P. Barber
- Scholars, Servants, Spies : William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad / J. Powell
- Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham / S. Alford
- A Most Secret Service : William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence / R. Adams
- Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy / J. Craigwood
- Gender, Politics and Diplomacy : Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England / J. Daybell
- Francis Bacon's Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing / A. Stewart
- Court Hieroglyphics : The Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson's Masques / H.J. Crawforth
- The Ambassador's Household : Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing / M. Netzloff
- The Postmistress, The Diplomat, and a Black Chamber? : Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control / N. Akkerman
- Index.