Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World

Tracey A. Sowerby (University of Oxford) researches early modern political culture and religion, with a particular focus on diplomatic practices and cultures. She was PI on two diplomacy-related projects 'Textual Ambassadors: Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World', funded by the AHRC and 'Centres of Diplomacy, Centres of Culture' funded by the British Academy. She is the author of Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England: the Careers of Sir Richard Morison c.1513-1556 (Oxford, 2010) and is co-editor, with Jan Hennings, of Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410-1800 (London, 2017). Joanna Craigwood (University of Cambridge) works on the relationship between English literature and diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has published variously on the diplomatic contexts for literary theory, Sidney and Shakespeare, and on diplomats as book collectors. She was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded international network 'Textual Ambassadors: Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World' and has given invited talks on literature and diplomacy across Europe and the US. She has worked as a lecturer in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

Tracey A. Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood: Introduction: Literary and Diplomatic Cultures in the Early Modern World
Part I. Literary Engagements
1: Joanna Craigwood: The Place of the Literary in European Diplomacy: Origin Myths in Ambassadorial Handbooks
2: Timothy Hampton: Distinguished Visitors: Literary Genre and Diplomatic Space in Shakespeare, Calderón, and Proust
3: Mark Netzloff: Lines of Amity: The Law of Nations: in the Americas
4: John Watkins: Diplomatic Pathos: Sidney's Brazen Fictions and the Troubled Origins of International Law
Part II. Translation
5: José María Pérez Fernández: Translation and Communication: War and Peace by Other Means
6: Catarina Fouto: The Politics of Translation: the Lusiads and European Diplomacy (1580-1664)
7: Peter Auger: Translation and Cultural Convergence in Late Sixteenth-century Scotland and Huguenot France
Part III. Dissemination
8: Joad Raymond: Books as Diplomatic Agents: Milton in Sweden
9: András Kiséry: Diplomatic Knowledge on Display: Foreign Affairs in the Early Modern English Public Sphere
10: Fabio Antonini: A Diplomatic Narrative in the Archive: The War of Cyprus, Record Keeping Practices and Historical Research in the Early Modern Venetian Chancery
Part IV. Diplomatic Documents
11: Jan Hennings: Textual Ambassadors and Ambassadorial Texts: Literary Representation and Diplomatic Practice in George Turberville's and Thomas Randolph's Accounts of Russia (1568-9)
12: Christine Vogel: Diplomatic Writing as Aristocratic Self-fashioning: French Ambassadors in Constantinople
13: Tracey A. Sowerby: Negotiating with the Material Text: Royal Correspondence between England and the Wider World
14: André Krischer: Ritual Practice and Textual Representations: The Free Imperial Cities in the Society of Princes