Spanish diplomats navigating foreign courts: transcultural agents?


Attendance is free. The PDFs of the three readings on which each session will be based can be obtained writing to giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk

Carrió-Invernizzi, D., ‘A new diplomatic history and the networks of Spanish diplomacy in the Baroque era’, International History Review 36, no. 4 (2014): 603-618.

Dandelet, T., Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 (2001), Ch. 1 (Foundations, 16-33).

Warnicke, R.‘Diplomatic rumor-mongering: an analysis of Mendoza’s on Elizabeth I’s audience with Scottish ambassadors in 1583’, in Law and sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Robert S. Sturges (2011), 115-131.