Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.

NADINE AKKERMAN Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands STEPHEN ALFORD Lecturer in Tudor History, University of Cambridge, UK PETER BARBER Head of Map Collections, British Library, UK HANNAH J. CRAWFORTH PhD candidate at Princeton University, USA JAMES DAYBELL Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth, UK JOANNA EASTWOOD PhD candidate at St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK DAVID HUMPHREY Senior Researcher in the Department of Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art, London, UK LISA JARDINE CBE Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK MARK NETZLOFF Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA JASON POWELL Assistant Professor at St. Joseph's University, USA ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA