... and ambiguity regarding its strategies, tactics, objectives, successes, and failures than is often realized. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 early modern English and Russian diplomacy Giles Fletcher the Elder’s embassy to the court of Emperor Fyodor records of ambassadorial correspondence...

... in a central way), yet it remains struc- turally crucial to the book (ambassadorial work is what Castiglione was doing when he was off in England, when the conversations he “records” ostensibly took place, and when he was off in Spain, when he wrote the final authorized preface shortly before the sack...

... relevant.3 In more recent studies, other questions and topics for investigation have emerged instead: the relations between European states as a total effect of practices, customs, and rules; the various arenas of foreign relations (dynastic, military, economic, religious) and their corresponding...

...- rank aristocrats) appointed to negotiate with Carlisle. The Muscovite ambassadorial chancel- lery (Posol skii prikaz) collected all records pertaining to the embassy, includ- ing detailed records of the conversations that took place between Carlisle and the boyars, as well as the responses to Marvell s...

... and appear to demonstrate a series of extensive commitments by individual scribes to record years of ambassadorial correspondence in work that would have taken them months or even years to finish. The list is surely incomplete, both as a survey of the extant archive and as a sliver of the original...

... and record-keeping was a hallmark of Venetian diplomatic practice, for example, a preponderance of earlier research has focused on Venice. Queller, for instance, was a Venetianist. The Victorian translation of all Watkins / Toward a New Diplomatic History  3 Venetian...

... at once authoritative and recognizably inaccurate. This fresh account of scientific change, which emerges from the early modern record of institutional and imperial conflict, unsettles the contemporary scholarly use of cartographic history as an explanatory mechanism for reading Renaissance literature...

... examination of his record reveals him as a shrewd, flexible, and sometimes duplicitous royal politician, adept at fashioning high-minded justifications for self-interested maneuvers, rather than an idealistic scholar-statesman. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 King James I of England...

.... Elizabethan-Ottoman relations When opportunities for establishing profitable relations put pressure on assumptions nurtured by fear and inexperience, those assumptions often crack and admit new figurations. The correspondence between Sultan Murad III and Queen Elizabeth I...