...Hannah Coates From his appointment as principal secretary to Elizabeth I in 1573, Sir Francis Walsingham was instrumental in every sphere of English diplomacy. He was particularly interested in maintaining friendly relations with Scotland, though this was complicated by his suspicions of individual...

... negotiation to a complex sociocultural landscape underlying the processes of diplomacy-in-the-making. The field of New Diplomatic History has since burgeoned. This current special issue hews closely to the cross-disciplinary nature of newer diplomatic history, and it responds to critical challenges that have...

... published writings on topics related to international politics and less formal pronouncements of principle in verbal discussions of European affairs have never received close contextual analysis. This essay examines how James deployed theoretical arguments in conducting diplomacy with other European states...

... and ambiguity regarding its strategies, tactics, objectives, successes, and failures than is often realized. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626469 © 2020 by Duke University Press Reading Diplomacy across the Archives: English and Russian Reports...

...Jan Hennings; Edward Holberton This article examines interactions between diplomatic representation, state bureaucracy, and rhetoric in early modern diplomacy. It analyzes manuscripts in the hand of the poet Andrew Marvell, which he wrote as secretary to the Earl of Carlisle’s 1663–64 embassy...

... The Whore of Babylon and Anglo- Spanish Diplomacy Jeri Smith- Cronin University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom On November 1, 1619, the Dominican friar, Diego de la Fuente, wrote home to King Philip III from the Spanish embassy in London to boast of his accomplishments in prohibiting a revival of Thomas...

...Anthony Cutler Duke University Press 2008 a Significant Gifts: Patterns of Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Diplomacy...

...Russell E. Martin Duke University Press 2008 a Gifts for the Bride: Dowries, Diplomacy, and Marriage Politics in Muscovy Russell E. Martin...

...John Watkins Scholars of contemporary international relations have long noted the rise of such nonstate agents as global corporations and NGOs on the world stage. With that shift in mind, John Robert Kelley has questioned the continued viability of an institutional definition of diplomacy...

... to political language and Timothy Hampton’s literary analysis of diplomacy, this essay examines Shakespeare’s mirror of diplomatic speech featured in Henry V (ca. 1599) in light of Jean Hotman’s reflections on parrhesia in The Ambassador (1603). Analyzing theoretical and dramatic views of parrhesiastic speech...

... widely copied in manuscript long before their dissemination in print. It also discusses unique letters and passages that were omitted from the book and no longer survive in the State Papers. English diplomacy abroad built paper embassies at home, within England, well before the publication...

... have interpreted their monarch's momentous outburst. The elm's longstanding significance as a site of diplomacy and peace negotiations in the border zone between France and Normandy makes its downfall especially symbolic, and suggests that the deliberate display of emotional excess may be an under...

... a different tone than the one found in contemporary narratives of Franciscan martyrdom in Morocco or in the language of the crusading movement. Diplomacy, however, did not so much represent an alternative to expressions of religious violence, as a complement to the overall goals and aspirations of the Roman...

..., subfields in the modern discipline of history: the study of premodern diplomacy. Diplomatic studies are often bracketed aside from other areas of investigation and seem imper- meable to theoretical and methodological innovations that have transformed almost every other sector of the profession...

... Toward a New Diplomatic History Volume 38 / Number 1 / Winter 2008 Edited by John Watkins The time is ripe for a multidisciplinary reevaluation of one of the oldest, and traditionally one of the most conservative, subfields in the modern dis- cipline of history: the study of premodern diplomacy...

... Minneapolis, Minnesota The diffusion of ambassadors and the increased range and significance of their work are fundamental aspects of modern diplomacy.1 International relations do not coincide entirely with diplomatic theory and practice, since they involve different kinds of interactions...

... and which, in turn, help shape the literary texts in which they appear. Through a reading of Jean Racine’s tragedy Andromaque, I will demonstrate that the depiction of diplomacy makes it possible for Racine to work out new models of action in tragedy that both draw upon and transform heroic con...

... / Number 1 / Winter 2008 Edited by John Watkins The time is ripe for a multidisciplinary reevaluation of one of the oldest, and traditionally one of the most conservative, subfields in the modern disci- pline of history: the study of premodern diplomacy. Within the discipline of history itself...

... / Number 1 / Winter 2008 Edited by John Watkins The time is ripe for a multidisciplinary reevaluation of one of the oldest, and traditionally one of the most conservative, subfields in the modern disci- pline of history: the study of premodern diplomacy. Within the discipline of history itself...

..., Exile, Diplomacy, and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767 . Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, vol. 74. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xi, 232 pp., 6 illus. Hardcover, OA ebook. Rothman, E. Natalie. The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters...