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The Early Modern Period Has Long Been Seen As An Age Of Great Importance In The Development Of Foreign Relations. The Rise Of Resident Embassies, The Development Of Institutions Dedicated To Diplomatic Activity, And The Growth Of State Bureaucracies Were All Components In The Rise Of Recognisably Modern Diplomacy. This Was An 'age Of Secretaries' That Assigned Important Roles In The Diplomatic Process To A Variety Of State Secretaries, Chancellors And Ministers. Bringing Together Case Studies Drawn From Across Europe And Asia, And Written By Leading Scholars In Their Fields, This Collection Offers A Novel And Genuinely Trans-regional Take On The Emergence Of Modern Inter-state Relations. Records, Politics And Diplomacy : Secretaries And Chanceries In Renaissance Italy (1350-c.1520) -- Mercurino Di Gattinara (1465-1530) : Imperial Chancellor, Strategist Of Empire -- 'this Continuous Writing' : The Paper Chancellery Of Bernhard Cles -- Parables And Dark Sentences : The Correspondence Of Sir William Cecil And William Maitland (1559-73) -- Axel Oxenstierna And Swedish Diplomacy In The Seventeenth Century -- Statecraft And The Role Of The Diplomat In Ducal Savoy : The Career Of Alessand

Author

Paul M. Dover

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press,

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474428446

Subjects

Political Science, History, Science