| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
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Early modern literature in history |
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Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robyn Adams and Rosana Cox -- 1. 'Procure as many as you can and send them over': Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations 1460-1760 / Peter Barber -- 2. Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad / Jason Powell -- 3. Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham / Stephen Alford -- 4. A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence / Robyn Adams -- 5. Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy / Joanna Craigwood -- 6. Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England / James Daybell -- 7. Francis Bacon's Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing / Aalan Stewart -- 8. Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson's Masques / Hannah J. Crawforth -- 9. The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing / Mark Netzloff -- 10. The Postmistress, The Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control / Nadine Akkerman |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"This volume began life after a three-day conference held at the University of Kent in collaboration with the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London in 2008"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Diplomacy.
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Diplomats.
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History, Modern.
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diplomacy.
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diplomats.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Diplomacy.
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Diplomacy
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Diplomats
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History, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adams, Robyn, 1977-
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Cox, Rosanna, 1978-
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| LC no. |
2010050289 |
| ISBN |
9780230298125 |
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0230298125 |
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1282999125 |
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9781282999121 |
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9786612999123 |
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6612999128 |
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