... Fletcher the Elder’s embassy to the court of Emperor Fyodor records of ambassadorial correspondence diplomatic custom and ritual rhetoric and representation Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 ...

... Ideologies of Diplomacy: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Representation in Early Modern England Jane Yeang Chui Wong Nanyang Technological University Singapore In 2008 John Watkins edited a special issue for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Toward a New Diplomatic History of Medi- eval and Early...

... with the custom and ritual of the border zone and potent in its claim of Capetian hegemony over an unruly vassal. Indeed, the acrimony and conflict of the summer stood in sharp con- trast to the joint crusading pledge taken in the very same venue the previous January. The destruction of the tree risked...

... and Joanna Craigwood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 131 45. early modern English and Russian diplomacy Andrew Marvell’s embassy to Moscow diplomatic custom and ritual secretarial correspondence in manuscript and print performative nature of diplomacy Copyright © 2020 Duke University...

... —  Viatka, Tver', Novgorod, Pskov — becoming master of northeastern Rus'. Moreover, the so-called Tatar Yoke had withered way with the reduction of tribute payments (dan' and vykhod) to the Golden Horde in the 1470s and with the gradual entry of Muscovy into the diplomatic and political world...

... on how merchants, diplomats, humanists, artists, mendicants, pilgrims, itinerant artisans, and laborers viewed their world and moved within it. Duke University Press 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved...

... the ritual context which has migrated, as it were, into the accom- panying text; customs were associated with the body, and these performative aspects of identity, such as military skills, eating, marriage, and sexual and burial practices, were more easily described in texts. Although Nicolay often...

... the sixth and the fifteenth centuries. The diplomatic gift in practice As we shall see, gifts (and their proper requital) were, and often still are, part of the fabric of Islamic societies and therefore, unsurprisingly, constituents of their foreign policy.13 Clearly, such behavior was fully...

.../ambassadorial perspective was indeed an early one, which Daston and Park see in Marco Polo’s account of his trav - els to the East: “Like merchants, diplomats and missionaries were also forced to adopt an attitude of civility toward unfamiliar peoples and to accept strange customs, if only...

... be considered noble as long as he follows the customs of his ances- Legassie / Chivalric Travel in the Mediterranean  517 tors, who, not departing from virtuous acts and always contrib- uting to the preservation of prowess, earned the right...

..., and Asia — where they served ritualized or traditional purposes.5 The brews of foreign beans and leaves carried in them the con- ceptual danger and wonder associated with the belief-­systems of these far-­ away lands. They frequently caused moral, scientific, and physical confusion in the form...

... on the event and texts of the coronation entry of Elizabeth I. The coronation entry was a traditional, ritual procession of the monarch and court through the streets of London, beginning at the Tower of London and ending at Westminster, moving along a fixed route through...

... to refuse bap- tism, to cremate the dead, to participate in pagan rituals, and to eat meat during Lent.9 Of course, other non-Christian religious systems, whether Christianity’s Abrahamitic siblings, Judaism and Islam, or the tribal reli- gions encountered through the invading Magyars (defeated in 955...

... account, in his Relation of 1636, of a Huron woman’s dream, related to him by Jesuits in another village: it’s the most complete of all the dreams he recounts, especially interesting in its pub- lic and diplomatic function, which he sees, of course, as the theatricalized manipulation of a thief...

...’ accounts which was the guarantee of proprietorship among competing European powers: first the Spanish, Portuguese, and French; later the English and Dutch. Charts and maps were, in this sense, as much “political tools” for diplomats as they were “navigational tools” for mariners.37 Thus...