Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World

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Edited by Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781474402248

Subjects:: Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics

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Encompassing a variety of cultural and institutional settings, these essays examine how state secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic personnel and the information flows they generated. They explore how these officials balanced domestic and international matters, and state and personal amitions.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-x

1 - Introduction: The Age of Secretaries
pp 1-15

2 - Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350–c. 1520)
pp 16-36

3 - Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire
pp 37-62

4 - ‘This continuous writing’: The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles
pp 63-89

5 - Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559–73)
pp 90-114

6 - Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century
pp 115-139

7 - Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592–1641)
pp 140-154

8 - Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635–59): Statesmanship in Context
pp 155-176

9 - The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639)
pp 177-205

10 - Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth-Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi
pp 206-234

11 - Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual
pp 235-253

12 - Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's Foreign Policy (1688–97)
pp 254-272

13 - Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism
pp 273-297

Index
pp 298-310

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