Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World

✍ Scribed by Tracey A. Sowerby; Joanna Craigwood

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential methods of analysis and theoretical approaches that will shape future research in the field. Contributions focus on three intimately related areas: the impact of diplomatic protocol on literary production; the role of texts in diplomatic practice, particularly those that operated as 'textual ambassadors'; and the impact of changes in the literary sphere on diplomatic culture. The literary sphere held such a central place because it gave diplomats the tools to negotiate the pervasive ambiguities of diplomacy; simultaneously literary depictions of diplomacy and international law provided genre-shaped places for cultural reflection on the rapidly changing and expanding diplomatic sphere. Translations exemplify the potential of literary texts both to provoke competition and to promote cultural convergence between political communities, revealing the existence of diplomatic third spaces in which ritual, symbolic, or written conventions and semantics converged despite particular oppositions and differences. The increasing public consumption of diplomatic material in Europe illuminates diplomatic and literary communities, and exposes the translocal, as well as the transnational, geographies of literary-diplomatic exchanges. Diplomatic texts possessed symbolic capital. They were produced, archived, and even redeployed in creative tension with the social and ceremonial worlds that produced them. Appreciating the generic conventions of specific types of diplomatic texts can radically reshape our interpretation of diplomatic encounters, just as exploring the afterlives of diplomatic records can transform our appreciation of the histories and literatures they inspired.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Literary and Diplomatic Cultures in the Early Modern World
LITERARY-DIPLOMATIC CULTURE
DIPLO-LITERARY STUDIES AND THE NEW DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
LITERARY ENGAGEMENTS
TRANSLATION
DISSEMINATION
DIPLOMATIC TEXTS
PART I: LITERARY ENGAGEMENTS
1: The Place of the Literary in European Diplomacy: Origin Myths in Ambassadorial Handbooks
INTRODUCTION
GENTILI ON THE ANTIQUITY OF EMBASSY
EUROPEAN CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS
CONCLUSION: CONSCIOUS MYTHMAKING
2: Distinguished Visitors: Literary Genre and Diplomatic Space in Shakespeare, Calderón, and Proust
INTRODUCTION: ‘MAMAMOUCHI!’
‘GREAT AMBASSADORS, FROM FOREIGN PRINCES’
‘AN AMBASSADOR FOR MYSELF’
CONCLUSION: ‘FOR A YOUNG MAN, A MEMORY WORTH KEEPING’
3: Lines of Amity: The Law of Nations in the Americas
INTRODUCTION
COLONIAL ALLIANCES: DRAKE AND THE CIMARRONS
REBELLION AND THE LAW OF NATIONS
VITORIA AND COLONIAL ENMITY
DAVENANT AND COLONIAL TRAGEDY
CONCLUSION: MAROONING THE LAW OF NATIONS
4: Diplomatic Pathos: Sidney’s Brazen Fictions and the Troubled Origins of International Laws
INTRODUCTION: LAW AND THE LIMITS OF PERSUASION
LEGAL IDEALISM AND DIPLOMATIC PRACTICE
LEGAL IDEALISM AND PROTESTANT MISGIVINGS IN GENTILI AND SYDNEY
LAW, LITERATURE, AND DIPLOMATIC ASPIRATION IN A FALLEN WORLD
PART II: TRANSLATION
5: Translation and Communication: War and Peace by Other Means
INTRODUCTION: MERCURY AND THE PRE-HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
COMMERCIO ET IMPERIO: SELF-INTEREST, COMMUNICATION, AND THE REGULATION OF LIFE IN COMMON
POLITICAL AMBASSADORS AND TEXTUAL WARRIORS
TRANSLATION AND DIPLOMACY BETWEEN PARTICULARS AND UNIVERSALS
CONCLUSION: DIPLOMACY, TRANSLATION, AND GENERIC THIRD SPACES
6: The Politics of Translation: The Lusiads and European Diplomacy (1580–1664)
INTRODUCTION
PHILIP I I AND THE LUSIADS
SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE’S ROYALIST TRANSLATION AND ANGLO-PORTUGUESE DIPLOMACY POST 1655
CARLO ANTONIO PAGGI’S LA LUSIADA ITALIANA: GENOESE DIPLOMACY AND MERCANTILE AMBITIONS
CONCLUSION
7: Translation and Cultural Convergence in Late Sixteenth-century Scotland and Huguenot France
INTRODUCTION
TRANSLATION AND DIPLOMATIC SIGNALLING
FORMING A PROTESTANT LITERARY COMMUNITY
CONCLUSION
PART III: DISSEMINATION
8: Books as Diplomatic Agents: Milton in Sweden
INTRODUCTION
THE EARLY LIFE OF DEFENSIO
THE ANGLO-SWEDISH TURN
THE IMPACT OF DEFENSIO
THE SEQUEL
CONCLUSION
9: Diplomatic Knowledge on Display Foreign Affairs in the Early Modern English Public Sphere
INTRODUCTION: THE ANJOU MATCH PUBLISHED
COMPLETE MANUALS OF CRAFT KNOWLEDGE
DOCUMENTS AS MANUALS OF CONDUCT
THE STAGE AND PUBLIC CIRCULATION
THE ENDS OF DIPLOMATIC KNOWLEDGE
CONCLUSION
10: A Diplomatic Narrative in the Archive: The War of Cyprus, Record Keeping Practices, and Historical Research in the Early Modern Venetian Chancery
INTRODUCTION
DIPLOMATIC AND SCHOLARLY INFORMATION IN THE VENETIAN SECRET CHANCERY
DIPLOMATIC RECORDS AS HISTORICAL SOURCES: THE CASE OF THE WAR OF CYPRUS
CONCLUSION
PART IV: DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS
11: Textual Ambassadors and Ambassadorial Texts: Literary Representation and Diplomatic Practice in George Turberville’s and Thomas Randolph’s Accounts of Russia (1568–9)
INTRODUCTION
TEXTUAL AMBASSADOR: TURBERVILLE’S POEMS AND VERSE LETTERS
AMBASSADORIAL TEXT: THOMAS RANDOLPH’S DIPLOMATIC REPORT
CONCLUSION
12: Diplomatic Writing as Aristocratic Self-Fashioning: French Ambassadors in Constantinople
INTRODUCTION
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE
THE AMBIGUITIES OF AMBASSADORIAL SELF-FASHIONING
CONCLUSION
13: Negotiating with the Material Text: Royal Correspondence between England and the Wider World
INTRODUCTION
EPISTOLARY CULTURE AND THE SOCIETYOF PRINCES
THE CEREMONIAL CONTEXT
DECORATED TEXTS AND DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATION
CONCLUSION
14: Ritual Practice and Textual Representations: Free Imperial Cities in the Society of Princes
INTRODUCTION
THE SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF RECORDING URBAN DIPLOMACY
THE CEREMONIAL RECORDS OF PRINCELY VISITS TO THE IMPERIAL CITIES
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
MANUSCRIPTS
PRINTED SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES
Index