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Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.
List of contents
Introduction - Valentina Caldari and Michael Questier and Sara J. Wolfson
The French Match and Court Politics - R Malcolm Smuts
What Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626 - Thomas Cogswell
Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625-26 - Sara J. Wolfson
'The onely soveraigne medecine': Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British-Spanish Match, 1596-1625 - Robert Cross
James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes - Valentina Caldari
War, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century - Porfirio Sanz Camañes
The Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy - Kelsey Flynn
Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation - Edmond Smith
The Stuart, the Palatinate, and the Thirty Years' War - Peter H. Wilson
Marital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North 1603-41 - Steve Murdoch
Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and their Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate - Adam Marks
Secrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and French Matches - David Coast
The Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity - Helmer Helmers
Whereof the world now stands in admiration: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands - Paul Arblaster
A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs - Manuel Rivero Rodriguez
The Court of Brussels: From Hostility to 'good vicinity' (1585-1604) - José Eloy Hortal Muñoz
The Austrian Match: The Dynastic Alternative of the Habsburgs and European Politics - Rubén González Cuerva
Dynastic Marriage, Diplomatic Ceremonial, and the Treaties of London (1604-05) and Antwerp (1609) - Melinda J. Gough
Spanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones's Queen's Chapel at St. James's - Andrea De Meo Arbore
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Valentina Caldari, Sara J. Wolfson
Summary
Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.
