ISBN:
9789004215078
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9004215077
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1283161443
,
9781283161442
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 280 pages, 21 pages of plates)
,
illustrations.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Sowerby, Tracey A. [Rezension von: Keblusek, Marika, Double Agents: Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe] 2012
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 1573-4188 v. 154
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions v. 154
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Double agents
DDC:
303.482400903
Keywords:
Diplomat
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Commercial agents History
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17th century
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Europe
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Foreign agents History
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17th century
;
Europe
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Artists' representatives History
;
17th century
;
Europe
;
Spies History
;
17th century
;
Europe
;
Cultural relations
;
Foreign agents History 17th century
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Artists' representatives History 17th century
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Spies History 17th century
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Commercial agents History 17th century
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Europe Court and courtiers
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History
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17th century
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Europe Politics and government
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17th century
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Europe Relations
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Social Science
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History
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Foreign agents
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International relations
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Politics and government
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Spies
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Internationale Politik
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Kulturaustausch
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Lobbyisme
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Netwerken
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Diplomaten
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Kunstenaars
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Kooplieden
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Spioner ; historia ; Europa ; 1600-talet
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Kulturella förbindelser
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Kaufmann
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Künstler
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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Artists' representatives
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Commercial agents
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Courts and courtiers
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Cultural relations
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Europe Relations
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Europe Politics and government
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17th century
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Europe Court and courtiers
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History
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17th century
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Europa
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Europe
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Europe Court and courtiers 17th century
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History
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Europe Relations
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Europa ; hovliv ; historia ; 1600-talet
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Europa
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Europe
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Europa
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Abstract:
Introduction : double agents in early modern Europe ;The embassy of art : diplomats as cultural brokers /Marika Keblusek --Art and patronage : Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy, 1604-1624 /Robert Hill --Giovanni Andrea Doria : citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain /Thomas Kirk --Politics and letters : Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two republics /Bianca Chen --Mercator sapiens : merchants as cultural entrepreneurs /Marika Keblusek --Acquiring artistic expertise : the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice /Maartje van Gelder --García de Yllán : a merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655 /Maurits A. Ebben --The pretext of pictures : artists as cultural and political agents /Marika Keblusek --A spider in its web : agent and artist Michel le Blon and his northern European network /Badeloch Vera Noldus --John Dowland's employment at the royal Danish court : musician, agent -- and spy? /Peter Hauge --Travels of a court jester : Gonzalo de Liaño, art agent at the court of King Philip II of Spain /Susanne Kubersky-Piredda and Salvador Salort Pons --"From Russia with love" : agents and their victims /Martin Dönike.
Abstract:
The early modern system of brokerage as a widespread practice of transmission and dissemination of political, intellectual and cultural ideas and objects has, in recent years, received some scholarly attention. Agents from different professional backgrounds diplomats, scholars, artists, priests, booksellers and merchants have, however, been studied mostly from a single, disciplinary perspective. The chapters making up this present volume all focus on individuals and professional groups who, in the course of their careers, became involved in multiple modes of cultural and political transfer. To
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