Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781474428446 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Paul M. Dover

Opis

Encompassing a variety of cultural and institutional settings, these essays examine how state secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic personnel and the information flows they generated. They explore how these officials balanced domestic and international matters, and state and personal amitions.

Spis treści

About the Contributors; 1. Introduction: the Age of Secretaries, Paul M. Dover; 2. Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350-1520 ca.), Isabella Lazzarini; 3. Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire, Rebecca Ard Boone; 4. ‘This continuous writing’: the Paper Chancellery of Berhard Cles, Megan K. Williams; 5. Parables and Dark Sentences: the Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland, 1559-1573, Rayne Allinson; 5. Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century, Erik Thomson; 6. Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: the Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641), Toby Osborne; 7. Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy, 1635-1659: Statesmanship in Context, David Parrott; 8. The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Waz?r: the Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639), Raveev Kinra; 9. Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth-Century Safavid Iran: the Wax and Wane of the Munshi, Colin Mitchell; 10. Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries, and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual, Russell E. Martin; 11. Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg’s Foreign Policy, 1699-1697, Daniel Riches; 12. Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism, Franz A.J. Szabo; Index.