Double Agents - Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe

Taking various professional groups in the early modern period (diplomats, merchants, artists) as a starting point, this book offers exciting new perspectives on early modern brokerage as a widespread practice of transmission and dissemination of political, intellectual and cultural ideas.

About the author

Marika Keblusek, Ph.D. (1997) in Book History, Leiden University, is Assistant Professor in Art History at Leiden University. She has published widely on book history and cultural history including Your Humble Servant. Agents in Early Modern Europe (2006).

Badeloch Vera Noldus, Ph.D. (2002) in Architectural History, Utrecht University, is heritage consultant in Copenhagen. She has published on cultural exchange and art history, including Trade in Good Taste (2004), Your Humble Servant (2006) and Pieter Isaacsz (2007).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2011
• EAN: 9789004202696
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20269-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History