Stuart Marriage Diplomacy: Dynastic Politics in their European Context, 1604-1630 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 31) 9781783271436, 1783271434
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Table of contents :
Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Marriage and the Court
1. The French Match and Court Politics
2. What Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626
3. Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation 4 Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625–26
Part Two: Marriage and Politics
4. ‘The onely soveraigne medecine’: Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British–Spanish Match, 1596–1625
5. James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes
6. War, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century
7. The Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy
8. Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation
Part Three: Marriage and War
9. The Stuarts, the Palatinate and the Thirty Years’ War
10. Marital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North, 1603–41
11. Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate
Part Four: Marriage and News
12. Secrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and 189 French Matches
13. The Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity
14. ‘Whereof the world now stands in admiration’: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands
Part Five: Marriage and Continental Europe
15. A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs
16. The Court in Brussels: From Hostility to ‘good vicinity’ (1585–1604)
17. The Austrian Match: The Habsburgs’ Dynastic Alternative and European Politics
Part Six: Marriage and Ceremony
18. Dynastic Marriage, Diplomatic Ceremonial and the Treaties of London (1604–05) and Antwerp (1609)
19. Spanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones’s Queen’s Chapel at St James’s
Bibliography
Index
Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Marriage and the Court
1. The French Match and Court Politics
2. What Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626
3. Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation 4 Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625–26
Part Two: Marriage and Politics
4. ‘The onely soveraigne medecine’: Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British–Spanish Match, 1596–1625
5. James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes
6. War, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century
7. The Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy
8. Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation
Part Three: Marriage and War
9. The Stuarts, the Palatinate and the Thirty Years’ War
10. Marital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North, 1603–41
11. Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate
Part Four: Marriage and News
12. Secrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and 189 French Matches
13. The Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity
14. ‘Whereof the world now stands in admiration’: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands
Part Five: Marriage and Continental Europe
15. A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs
16. The Court in Brussels: From Hostility to ‘good vicinity’ (1585–1604)
17. The Austrian Match: The Habsburgs’ Dynastic Alternative and European Politics
Part Six: Marriage and Ceremony
18. Dynastic Marriage, Diplomatic Ceremonial and the Treaties of London (1604–05) and Antwerp (1609)
19. Spanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones’s Queen’s Chapel at St James’s
Bibliography
Index
