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. ROBYN ADAMS Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has published articles which focus on intelligencers in the sixteenth century in 'Historical Research' and 'Huntington Library Quarterly.' She is also the editor of two online letter editions, 'The Letters of William Herle' and 'The Diplomatic Letters of ThomasBodley', and associate editor of 'Letters of a Stuart Princess: the Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, vol. II'(forthcoming). ROSANNA COX Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at University of Kent, UK. She works mainly on the politics, literature and thought of the civil war, commonwealth and restoration periods, and is particularly interested in the works of John Milton. She has published chapters and articles on Milton's politics, and on 'Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes', and is currently working on her monographon Milton and citizenship, 1643-1660. INDICE: 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 ElizabethanEngland; '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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23976-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés