Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

1. Introduction
Robyn Adams, Rosanna Cox

2. ‘Procure as many as you can and send them over’: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760
Peter Barber

3. Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad
Jason Powell

4. Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham
Stephen Alford

5. A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence
Robyn Adams

6. Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy
Joanna Craigwood

7. Gender, Politics and Diplomacy: Women, News and Intelligence Networks in Elizabethan England
James Daybell

8. Francis Bacon’s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
Alan Stewart

9. Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Masques
Hannah J. Crawforth

10. The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing
Mark Netzloff

11. The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control
Nadine Akkerman

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Britain and Ireland, European History, Modern History