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Secretaries and statecraft in the early modern world /
An illuminating exploration of the role played by state secretaries in shaping inter-state relations in early modern Eurasia. One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the exercise of state power, particularly in internat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641)
- Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635-59) : statemanship in context
- The learned ideal of the Mughal Wazīr : the life and intellectual world of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Sirazi (d.1639)
- Reconsidering state and constituency in seventeenth-century Safavid Iran : the wax and wane of the Munshi
- Choreographers of power : Grigorii Kotoshikhin, state secretaries and the Muscovite royal wedding ritual
- Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's foreign policy (1688-97)
- Chancellor of state : Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg foreign office and foreign policy in the era of enlightened absolutism.