Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Age of Secretaries
- 2 Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350–c. 1520)
- 3 Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire
- 4 ‘This continuous writing’: The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles
- 5 Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559–73)
- 6 Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century
- 7 Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592–1641)
- 8 Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635–59): Statesmanship in Context
- 9 The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639)
- 10 Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth-Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi
- 11 Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual
- 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's Foreign Policy (1688–97)
- 13 Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism
- Index
Frontmatter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Age of Secretaries
- 2 Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350–c. 1520)
- 3 Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire
- 4 ‘This continuous writing’: The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles
- 5 Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559–73)
- 6 Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century
- 7 Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592–1641)
- 8 Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635–59): Statesmanship in Context
- 9 The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639)
- 10 Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth-Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi
- 11 Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual
- 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's Foreign Policy (1688–97)
- 13 Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism
- Index
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- Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World , pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016