Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
‘Procure as many as you can and send them over’: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760....Pages 13-29
Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad....Pages 30-45
Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham....Pages 46-62
A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence....Pages 63-81
Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy....Pages 82-100
Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England....Pages 101-119
Francis Bacon’s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing....Pages 120-137
Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Masques....Pages 138-154
The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing....Pages 155-171
The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control....Pages 172-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-200