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... 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...

... unofficial state actors informal negotiations Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626508 © 2020 by Duke University Press Afterword: Beyond the Grand Récit John Watkins University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Traditional diplomatic historians...

... of the central figures of modern politics. Ever since humanism, ambassadors have been the recipi- ents of precepts, practical advice, and ethical standards; they have served as able interpreters of the politics of their time, as authors of the instruments of negotiation, as architects of information...

... to control information and news, cultivate diplomatic prestige, or damage the standing of political rivals.2 The Carl- isle embassy, which also visited Sweden and Denmark after leaving Mus- covy, offers an opportunity to examine in detail the construction of early modern public diplomacy, because substantial...

... undermining its authority, Colon attempted more broadly to disassociate cartographic empiricism from disingenuous imperi- alism. He blamed the failure of the negotiations on litigious and ill-informed bureaucrats, even though he himself had already emphasized the inability of sixteenth-century...

... different languages and traditions globally, to the envisioning of local, national, and transnational discursive communities, or to the negotiation of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry has in recent years offered a favorable site for inquiry into community formation and its politics...

... s government in May 1584. Walsingham backed the men, urging Elizabeth to press James for their reinstatement. He corresponded with the exiled leaders, telling them that he was keeping Elizabeth informed of their plight and that she had promised to endeavor to restore them to James s good graces.22...

..., to the envisioning of local, national, and transnational discursive communities, or to the negotiation of poetic filiations and social positions, lyric poetry has in recent years offered a favorable site for inquiry into community formation and its politics. Community formation has been described variously...

... of the journal, the editors invite articles that are both informed by historical inquiry and alert to issues raised by contemporary theoretical debate. We expect that essays will be grounded in an intimate knowledge of a particular past and that their argumentation reveal a concern for the theoretical...

... and place within English environments were adapted and applied to Indian regions. By examining the writings of four lesser‐known travelers to India in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this article argues that English understandings of nationhood, population, and commonwealth were informed...

... Bohemond, the commander of the southern Italian contingent of the crusading force — so we learn from the Gesta Francorum — forged what seems an improbable alliance [amicitiam] with Pirus, a Turkish amir (ammiratus).2 After a series of negotiations in which Bohemond not only offered Pirus riches...

.... Such a policy not only offered the promise of more substantial foreign assistance, should a new war between Spain and Britain become unavoidable; it also made such a war less likely by putting the Habsburgs in a more vulnerable position. If negotiated successfully, support for the Netherlands and collaboration...

... • Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle Carissa M. Harris Temple University...

... brash, arrogant diplo- macy was fresh in the minds of the Muscovites. Fletcher spent eleven months in Russia, from September 1588 until August 1589. Although he had to conduct his negotiations in an atmosphere of acrimony and distrust, the embassy achieved more than expected. The tsar granted most...

... instrument in diplomatic negotiations. Combining Quentin Skinner s rhetorical approach to political lan- guage and Timothy Hampton s literary analysis of diplomacy, this essay reconsiders Shakespeare s mirror of diplomatic speech featured in Henry V (ca. 1599) in light of Jean Hotman s reflections...

... had encouraged Elizabeth I to support the English merchants who wished 76  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.1 / 2007 to form an alliance with the Ottoman sultanate, to establish an embassy in Constantinople, and to negotiate for a privileged trading status in ports under...

...” of the upcoming tableau, but the queen’s response to what will be presented. The queen’s quip about “time,” her immediate resolution of the problem of receiving a gift from an elevated stage, and her adjustment when she is informed of the method of delivery, all indicate that she...

... with extreme caution. It is not easy to fathom the network of decisions, negotiations, con- flicts, or alternatives lying hidden behind a text of this kind, written as it was by a layman. In this particular case, a patient’s husband is writing to a physician to enquire about his wife’s malady...

... d’Anjou and negotiations that followed the abandonment of those marriages, as discussed in letters written in 1569–73 and 1581 by Francis Walsingham, Thomas Smith, Henry Norris, and others, often in correspondence with Lord Burghley. The title page describes the Ambassador as having been “Faithfully...

... resides in the tension between manuscript and print cultures, the hand and the machine. In creating a place for herself between these two cultures, I argue, Inglis connected the writing woman to desired political and social affiliations, negotiated in part by and for her family at the same time...