... 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...

... in 1619 Fletcher and Massinger's Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Synod of Dort English Reformed theology international politics In May 1619, the eyes and ears of Londoners were fixed on news from abroad. With the German electors preparing to crown a new Holy Roman emperor...

... ympedidos con yngleses o de otra manera” [without seeing first that there is a good basis and opportunity and that it is with the favor and assistance of the empire and that the French are checked by the English or in some other way].54 England was impor- tant to Habsburg international political...

... of Imagined Pilgrimage 147 ies of resistance are severely limited by the lack of an ethnographic perspec- tive, being ethnographically thin at both the level of internal politics of dominated groups and the level of wider social interaction.27 This literature is characterized, she claims, by the absence...

... of his time, Spenser introduces and adapts several figures — of language and of geography — that produce virtual encounters for the read- ers of The Faerie Queene, provoking us to think about the landmarks and processes that give shape to international politics, empire, and the ideal in which Book...

... essay “Significant Gifts,” the gifts presented, exchanged, and redistributed in the course of ambas- sadorial encounters constitute an important but understudied chapter in the parallel histories of art and premodern “international” politics. Despite ample records documenting the importance...

.... In certain cases, the play of European alliances contributed directly to the consolidation or to the deterioration of fragile seignorial regimes. Diplomatic missions and interfer- ence from other European powers, for example, played an important role in internal political struggles during the opening...

... collected in Laud Misc. 416 in some ways as good a fit for the Brigittines’ library as for the Tiptoft family’s library. Syon was, though, by no means unique as a monastic community closely involved in high-­ level international political affairs. Claire Walker’s essay reveals that English nuns...

... politics was also neces- sarily to think about diplomacy. Richelieu made axiomatic the connection between these forms of activity in a famous line in his Testament politique, where he asserts that the key to political success in the international realm is a “continual negotiation” [une negotiation...

... international political conflicts could be enacted within local spaces of ports and affect coastal trade. In this altercation, the letter from James I assumed multiple meanings. For the Portuguese, it appeared a threat to their longstanding hegemony in Indian seas and coasts, a kind of invasion authorized...

..., “The Uses and Meanings of Liminal- ity,” International Political Anthropology , no. – Thomassen, “Anthro- pology and Social Theory: Renewing Dialogue,” European Journal of Social Theory no. – and Thomassen, Liminality and the Modern: Living through the In-Between (Farnham...

... the fact that internal imperial politics were so complex that the treaty was in fact two separate treaties, negotiated by different delegations working in different cities. Even the Thirty Years War, which Westphalia supposedly ended, actually continued for another eleven years as a bilateral war...

.... Comoedia apocalyptica, as Adrian Streete shows in his recent monograph, fuses the spiritual and the temporal, national and international concerns, through drama and invites readers to decode the play s political aims. 13 As Spikes argues, we should understand The Whore of Babylon in relation...

... favors peace over conflict, Malcolm Smuts s essay argues that James s theo- retical political pronouncements on international relations in his writings were in reality more ideological than practical, flagging the tensions between text as diplomatic representation and action as diplomatic justification...

..., The Confessional State in International Politics, Diplomacy and Statecraft 25, no. 3 (2014): 407 31, at 426. 96 Hunsdon to Burghley, Oct. 31, 1584, Caligula C.viii, fol. 170r. 97 Hunsdon to Burghley, Sept. 11, 1584, TNA, SP 52/36, fol. 72r. 98 Hunsdon to Moray, Jan. 9, 1570, Salisbury, 1:459. 99 Hunsdon to Cecil...

..., but also to devise (in the case of geographical eponyms) a system of proprietorship or ownership. In the body, on the other hand, the issue was not so much the recognition of discovery, but the justification of the new science of anatomy. The article concludes by looking at the political implications...

...-progressive standpoint whose validity Gregory evidently means to contest, this essay instead focuses on tensions and contradictions internal to The Unintended Reformation . Key here is the alleged, comprehensive “failure” of post-Reformation Europe. Premising his declensionist account on alternative choices...

...John Jeffries Martin Studies of religious dissimulation have generally assumed a moral topography of concealment: one holds one’s true religious beliefs privately, internally, while conforming outwardly to the expectations of the dominant society. This essay challenges this assumption through...

...- lished authority.42 The international political situation was closely tied, from the 1530s onward, to religious differences, which in turn created questions of loyalty among those born outside the king’s obeisance. Beyond their pre- sumed association with the radical dissenters coming from...

... of the material cultures, international markets, forma- tion of identities, and cultural and social codes of meaning in these periods. The study of fashion, clothing, dress, and costume, when aligned with these multiple social, cultural, political, and economic transformations during the long periods...