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Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World

Beschreibung

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the relationship between literature and diplomacy in the early modern world and studies how texts played an integral part in diplomatic practice.

Autor

Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford) researches early modern political culture and religion, with a particular focus on diplomatic practices and cultures. She was PI on two diplomacy-related projects 'Textual Ambassadors: Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World', funded by the AHRC and 'Centres of Diplomacy, Centres of Culture' funded by the British Academy. She is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: the Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (Oxford, 2010) and is co-editor, with Jan Hennings, of Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410-1800 (London, 2017). Joanna Craigwood (University of Cambridge) works on the relationship between English literature and diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has published variously on the diplomatic contexts for literary theory, Sidney and Shakespeare, and on diplomats as book collectors. She was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded international network 'Textual Ambassadors: Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World' and has given invited talks on literature and diplomacy across Europe and the US. She has worked as a lecturer in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835691
• ISBN-10: 0198835698
• Artikelnr.: 56272765