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

...Danila Sokolov This essay undertakes a cross-cultural interpretation of Giles Fletcher the Elder’s diplomatic mission to Muscovy (1588–89). It brings Fletcher’s official report on his embassy to the court of Emperor Fyodor in conversation with its Russian counterpart, in addition to placing...

... His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark. Comparative analysis of these manuscript and 566 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.3 / 2020 print sources reveals valuable insights into the development by Marvell and Miège...

... to the journal’s regular readers, two other articles press our understanding of “Europe” to its farthest boundaries by investigating diplomatic practices in Byzantium and Muscovy. The issue opens with an article by Daniela Frigo on the function of the ambassador in early modern political culture...

..., to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark. In examining the tensions that surrounded the varying and at times conflicting ideas of representation, rhetoric, and translation in the construction of Carlisle s diplomatic mission, Hennings and Holberton decenter the ambassadorial...

... actors, early mod- ern diplomats seized the aesthetic moment and embraced the provisional when the settled and the certain eluded their grasp. Danila Sokolov s essay on Giles Fletcher the Elder s 1588 89 mis- sion to Muscovy foregrounds the semiotic and hermeneutic complexities of diplomatic encounters...

... of the leaders; it was a mechanism to tame tyrannical excesses. In Hotman, it is a means to test the ambassador s accountability.34 As shown in Hotman s list of bad ambassadors in this discussion an ambassador to the Duke of Muscovy, Augustus s ambassador to Antony, a Venetian ambassador to the Greek emperor...

... Ostrowski, Donald. Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304 –1589. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 329 pp.; 3 figs., 6 tables. $59.95. Power, Daniel, and Naomi Standen, eds. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian...

... the English Muscovy Company, whose ships sought profit plying the Caspian. To Europe, Marlowe’s Tamburlaine therefore represents continued and pro- tected access to the wealth of the East. The Ottoman Sultan Bajazeth enters the play an ardent confirmation...