... practices and the performative nature of diplomacy, this article shows how secretaries exerted significant influence on the reception of early modern diplomatic relations. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626457 © 2020 by Duke University Press Andrew...

... vocabulary for diplomacy . . . because they perceived close resonances between the representational and performative nature of the two activities, resonances that helped them to understand the cultural relativism at play between their host and their home courts. 16 The ambassador s role is essentially...

... to political language and Timothy Hampton’s literary analysis of diplomacy, this essay examines Shakespeare’s mirror of diplomatic speech featured in Henry V (ca. 1599) in light of Jean Hotman’s reflections on parrhesia in The Ambassador (1603). Analyzing theoretical and dramatic views of parrhesiastic speech...

... Minneapolis, Minnesota The diffusion of ambassadors and the increased range and significance of their work are fundamental aspects of modern diplomacy.1 International relations do not coincide entirely with diplomatic theory and practice, since they involve different kinds of interactions...

..., Monica, and Karen Raber, eds. Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater . Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures, vol. 11. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, (2017) 2022. 208 pp., 22 illus. Ebook. [On animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship...

... of artistry and aesthetic innovation attached to them in European diplomacy was lost on their Muscovite recipients, who saw in them nothing but meager pieces of precious metal. But it is also possible that the Russian side grasped the nature (if not the exact symbolic meaning) of the gifts all too well...

... have interpreted their monarch's momentous outburst. The elm's longstanding significance as a site of diplomacy and peace negotiations in the border zone between France and Normandy makes its downfall especially symbolic, and suggests that the deliberate display of emotional excess may be an under...

...- losophy. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004. xi, 197 pp. $79.95. Porter, Jean. Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005. xii, 420 pp. Paper $32.00. Sherwin, Michael S., O.P. By Knowledge and by Love: Charity and Knowl- edge...

...- losophy. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004. xi, 197 pp. $79.95. Porter, Jean. Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005. xii, 420 pp. Paper $32.00. Sherwin, Michael S., O.P. By Knowledge and by Love: Charity and Knowl- edge...

... are not her concern, the role of gifts in the internal diplomacy of kings is treated (esp. 85  –  97). Reviewing this book, Keith Thomas in the New York Review of Books 47, no. 20 (Dec. 21, 2000): 69  –  72, pointed to the “wholly alien” (72) nature of the practices of “archaic” societies...

... and translations 2. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 3. Diplomacy 4. Law and justice 5. Chivalry and nobility 6. Saints and religious professions 7. Theater and spectacle 8. Music 672 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.3 / 2020 1. Editions and translations Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop...

... given to the brides. They can be read for evidence of Muscovite attitudes and apprehensions about dynastic unions with foreigners, and, when taken together, for clues about the nature of the Muscovite political system. Elena Ivanovna and diplomacy on the west From at least 1487 to the end...

... were prioritized, there were still different ways of achieving these alliances and deciding the nature of this support. Though some of this scholarship sometimes tends toward the impersonal, it is important to remember that early modern politics, even foreign diplomacy, was shaped by personalities...

... of it can cast out the uninitiate. As a means of exchange between indi- viduals, secrets create networks—social (gossip), religious (confession), political (diplomacy), intellectual (magic, medicine, natural philosophy). A secret is an ethical event. To possess it can...

... Philosophical and theological legacies Warfare Diplomacy Race and otherness Authorship and textuality Music Jansen, Cornelius. The Predestination of Humans and Angels: Augustinus, Tome III, Book IX . Translated by Guido Stucco. Early Modern Catholic Sources, vol. 4. Washington, D.C...

... of post-Reformation apocalyptic drama and, more immediately, as participating in the extended print and performance history of the confessionally charged Jacobean history play. Combining an apocalyptic vision of history and chivalric language and imagery within a cultural framework of Elizabethan...

... of the courtier to make people think a far greater ability lies concealed from public view, an ability that remains untapped but nev- ertheless, were it to be put into action and revealed, would naturally find a proper end in a perfected, complete performance.9 The courtier’s sprezzatura is therefore...

... to the influence of local literary and performative practices for Ottoman artists that include biographies of poets and sultans, the Silsilname [Books of gene- alogy].8 Schick has also explored the relation between Ottoman costume books and earlier conventions, such as books of marvels and images of street...

..., Slavic interpreter suggests awareness of the bilingual nature of Ottoman provincial elites in Dalmatia, and the sociosemiotic potentials of code-­switching.65 Matteac- ci’s presence and performance also confirmed the inherent ability to blur the Venetian-­Ottoman boundary, not only through...

... of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. x, Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  625 235 pp.; 16 illus. $55.00. [On how religious men and women understood the effects of the Incarnation on the natural...