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_b.D5575 2011
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245 0 0 _aDiplomacy and early modern culture
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox ; foreword by Lisa Jardine.
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _axii, 200 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aEarly modern literature in history
500 _a"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."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aDiplomacy.
650 0 _aDiplomats.
650 0 _aHistory, Modern.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aAdams, Robyn,
_d1977-
700 1 _aCox, Rosanna,
_d1978-
700 1 _aJardine, Lisa.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aEarly modern literature in history.
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