"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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