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