... 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...

... 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...

..., for example, Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Mod- ern Eurasia, ed. Zoltán Biedermann et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Tracey Sowerby, A Memorial and a Pledge of Faith : Portraiture and Early Modern Diplomatic Culture, English Historical Review 129, no. 537...

... to the demands of foreign reception, the performative aspects of these exchanges in writ- Wong / Ideologies of Diplomacy 485 ing, speech, and action often conveyed mixed messages to its own citizens: How did England generate ideologies of diplomacy? How did early modern English society respond...

... of the English and Russian archives with acknowledgment of what can- not be known at our own cultural distance. We will never know, for example, just why the tsar rejected Elizabeth s gift. Did it fall short of expectations set by previous English missions? Did the tsar and his ministers mistake honorary medals...

... and philosophy of science and technology, English and the modern languages, comparative literature, women’s studies and gender studies, rhetoric, and cultural studies. The history of diplomacy is finally inseparable from parallel histories of edu- cation and literacy, technological innovation, economics...

... A. Forging the Kingdom: Power in English Society, 973 – 1189. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. x, 310 pp. $100.00, paper $25.00. Handler-­Spitz, Rivi. Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiii, 239 pp.; 5 figs...

... color figs. $143.00. [Catalan text followed by trans- lations into English, Asturian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Russian.] Rutherford, John, ed. and trans. The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet. Iberian and Latin American Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2016. xii...

..., and modern) of space and time by which the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds have been divided (1:48 – 63). 46  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.1 / 2007 4 Palmira Brummett, Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discov- ery (Albany: State University of New...