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Title Double agents : cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe / edited by Marika Keblusek and Badeloch Vera Noldus
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages, 21 pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 154
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 154.
Contents Introduction : double agents in early modern Europe ; The embassy of art : diplomats as cultural brokers / Marika Keblusek -- Art and patronage : Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy, 1604-1624 / Robert Hill -- Giovanni Andrea Doria : citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain / Thomas Kirk -- Politics and letters : Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two republics / Bianca Chen -- Mercator sapiens : merchants as cultural entrepreneurs / Marika Keblusek -- Acquiring artistic expertise : the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice / Maartje van Gelder -- García de Yllán : a merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655 / Maurits A. Ebben -- The pretext of pictures : artists as cultural and political agents / Marika Keblusek -- A spider in its web : agent and artist Michel le Blon and his northern European network / Badeloch Vera Noldus -- John Dowland's employment at the royal Danish court : musician, agent -- and spy? / Peter Hauge -- Travels of a court jester : Gonzalo de Liaño, art agent at the court of King Philip II of Spain / Susanne Kubersky-Piredda and Salvador Salort Pons -- "From Russia with love" : agents and their victims / Martin Dönike
Summary The early modern system of brokerage as a widespread practice of transmission and dissemination of political, intellectual and cultural ideas and objects has, in recent years, received some scholarly attention. Agents from different professional backgrounds diplomats, scholars, artists, priests, booksellers and merchants have, however, been studied mostly from a single, disciplinary perspective. The chapters making up this present volume all focus on individuals and professional groups who, in the course of their careers, became involved in multiple modes of cultural and political transfer. To
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Diplomat gnd
Subject Commercial agents -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Foreign agents -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Artists' representatives -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Spies -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Cultural relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Artists' representatives
Commercial agents
Courts and courtiers
Cultural relations
Foreign agents
International relations
Politics and government
Spies
Internationale Politik
Kulturaustausch
Künstler
Kaufmann
Lobbyisme.
Netwerken.
Diplomaten.
Kunstenaars.
Kooplieden.
Spioner -- historia -- Europa -- 1600-talet.
Kulturella förbindelser.
SUBJECT Europe -- Relations
Europe -- Politics and government -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045738
Europe -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
Subject Europe
Europa
Europa.
Europa -- politik och förvaltning -- historia -- 1600-talet.
Europa -- hovliv -- historia -- 1600-talet.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Keblusek, Marika, 1965-
Noldus, Badeloch.
ISBN 9789004215078
9004215077
1283161443
9781283161442
9786613161444
6613161446