Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare

Herausgeber: Powell, Jason; Rossiter, William T.

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed examination of the relationship between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern periods, this volume interrogates the persistent duality of the roles of author and ambassador. Contributors analyze various forms of writing, including drama, poetry, diplomatic correspondence, peace treaties and household accounts; and a range of major literary figures, including Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781138256910
• ISBN-10: 1138256919
• Artikelnr.: 57054785

Autorenporträt

Jason Powell is Assistant Professor at Saint Joseph's University, USA. William T. Rossiter is Senior Lecturer at the University East Anglia, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter; The art of saying exile
Elisa Brilli; Petrarch and the Venetian-Genoese war of 1350-1355
Alexander Lee; William de la Pole's poetic 'parlement': the political lyrics of Bodleian MS Fairfax 16
Mariana Neilly; 'I beseik thy Maiestie serene': difficulties of diplomacy in Sir David Lyndsay's Dreme
Kate Ash; 'Not cardinal but king': Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician diplomatic imagination
Bradley J. Irish; In Spayne: Sir Thomas Wyatt and the poetics of embassy
William T. Rossiter; License and Lutheranism: diplomatic gossip
religious identity
and the Earl of Surrey
Mike Rodman Jones; Tasso at the French embassy: epic
diplomacy and the law of nations
Diego Pirillo; The 1559 Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis: print
marriages of state
and the expansion of diplomatic literacy
John Watkins; Astrophil the orator: diplomacy and diplomats in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
Jason Powell; Public diplomacy and the comedy of state: Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive
Mark Netzloff; Shakespeare's kingmaking ambassadors
Joanna Craigwood; Bibliography; Index.