Books by Dr Roberta Anderson
Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe examines the role of religion in early modern Europ... more Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe examines the role of religion in early modern European diplomacy. In the period following the Reformations, Europe became divided: all over the continent, princes and their peoples split over theological, liturgical, and spiritual matters. At the same time, diplomacy rose as a means of communication and policy, and all powers established long-or short-term embassies and sent envoys to other courts and capitals. The book addresses three critical areas where questions of religion or confession played a role: papal diplomacy, priests and other clerics as diplomatic agents, and religion as a question for diplomatic debate, especially concerning embassy chapels.
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N. Rivere de Carles, Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power: The Making of Peace (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), 2015
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One important way in which society projects influence abroad is through the exercise of diplomacy... more One important way in which society projects influence abroad is through the exercise of diplomacy. This book deals with a particular phase in the diplomatic time scale, a phase which has its own prehistory.
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Choice Reviews Online, 2002
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Why a Cultural History Historicizing the Signs of Diana Di... more Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Why a Cultural History Historicizing the Signs of Diana Diana, Royalty and Femininity The Ambivalent Femininities of Diana Narratives A Life in Images The Mourning for Diana and the Question of National Transformation Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Recusant History, 2003
a Castro, Alfonso, 138 a Kempis, Thomas, 563 A counterblast to M. Homes vayne blaste against M. F... more a Castro, Alfonso, 138 a Kempis, Thomas, 563 A counterblast to M. Homes vayne blaste against M. Fekenham, 540 A restitution of decayed intelligance, 544 A return of untruthes upon m. Jewwlls replie (Antwerp, 1566), 539 A short rule of good life, 550 a Wood, Anthony, 139 Abel, Thomas, 159 Academie Anglaise, Liege, 185 Acadians, 120, 121 Acton, Cardinal, 504 Acton, Lady, 504 Acton, Sir John, 161 Acts and Monuments, 538, 540, 541 Adelmus, 542 Adelstan, 544 Aelfric, 542 Aged Poor Society, 448 Ainsworth, Miss, 148 Alban, St, 452 Albert, archduke, 14, 40, 62, 63, 64, 565 Aldrich, Henry, 572 Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 338 Alexander, Natalis, 139 Alfort, Rev, Henry, of Wymeswold, 194 All Saints Church, Bigby, 559 Allen, cardinal, 49 Allen, Robert, 291 Allison, A. R., 549 Alpine,—, widow, 159 Altholz, Josef, 229, 230 Alured,—, 542 Ambrose, St, 547 American War of Independence, 314 Amigo, Archbishop, 626 Amigo, Peter, of Southwark, 616 An introduction to a devout life, 550 Anderton Webster, Lionel, 143 Anderton Webster, Veronica, 143 Andrade, Sister Philippa, IBVM nun, 195 Andrew, cardinal, 62 Andrewes,—, 573, 584 Andrews, Miss, 95 Angier, Fr. Thomas, 171, 174, 182 Anglia, Normannica, Hibernicam Canbrica, 138 Anglican Convocation, 502 Anglicanism, 117, 240 Anne, Queen of England, 447, 602 Anstruther, Godfrey, 5, 146 Answere to the fifth part of the reports by Coke, 543, 546 Antonio, Fra, 83 Antwerp, 107 Archaeological Society, Birmingham, 162 Archbishop of Canterbury, 22, 121, 540, 544 Archbishop of Glasgow, 323 Archbishop of Paris, 443 Archbishop of York, 121, 540 Archdukes of the Spanish Netherlands, 5, 10, 15, 18, 20, 21, 53, 61 Archer, Sir Simon, of Tamworth in Arden, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 421, 422 Arco-Vallei, family, 161 Aristotle, 133 Arnett, Mr W. L., of Old Wood, 151 Arthur,—, Mr, 61 Arthur Henry, earl of Powis, 98, Arthurus Britannicus, 135 Arundel House, 56 Arundel, Sir John, 308 Arundell of Wardour, family, 430 Arundell of Wardour, Lord, 98 Arundell, family, of Lanherne, Cornwall, 430 Ashton, family ofWhalley, 591 Askew—, 158 Aston of Standon Lordship, Lord, 456 Aston, Lord, 145 Aston, William, 182 Athanasius, 138 Athenae, 417 Atherton, Thomas, alias Pearson, 145, 147 Atlinson, John, 20 Atterbury, Plot, 462 Atterbury, Francis, 572, 582 Attree, Canon, 625 Attwood, family of Wolverley, 421 Aubrey, John, 454 Augien,—, Mr, 119 Augsburg, Germany, 194, 198, 200 Augustinians, 103 Augustine of Canterbury, St, 452, 573, 577
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Recusant History, 2005
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After 1603 there was an outbreak of wedding fever at the English court, aptly summed up by John C... more After 1603 there was an outbreak of wedding fever at the English court, aptly summed up by John Chamberlain, who writes that ‘all the talke now is of masking and feasting at these towardly marriages.’ In these early years of James VI & I’s reign, marriage played a key role in defining his identity as Rex Pacificus. After a flurry of high-profile court weddings aimed in some way or another at stabilising political tensions, protracted negotiations with several European nations culminated in Princess Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of James and Anna of Denmark, marrying Frederick, Elector Palatine, on Valentine’s Day, 1613. This paper will uncover some of the proposed bridegrooms offered for Elizabeth, and will examine the negotiations which took place to allow James to settle on Frederick V.
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Gender and Diplomacy
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The Downside Review, 2015
John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments provides us with more information about the female participants in... more John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments provides us with more information about the female participants in the English Reformation than any other work of the period and, at the same time, poses the question for historians of why some female martyrs of the Marian period differed so convincingly from the Protestant norm, which saw women subsumed to man. While women’s role in society was not of great import to Protestant reformers, the changes they did advocate had considerable significance for women. There is clearly a difficulty in the message Foxe is giving us about appropriate women’s roles, and the traditionally submissive and sexually chaste role prescribed for women is certainly not the one demonstrated by Foxe’s women.
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The Downside review, Feb 6, 2017
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In 1897, after several nasty bouts of bronchitis, the Abbess of St Mary’s, East Bergholt, Lady Ge... more In 1897, after several nasty bouts of bronchitis, the Abbess of St Mary’s, East Bergholt, Lady Gertrude Lescher, was recommended a change of air, and, since her last attack, her physician, Dr Carey, now insisted that it was imperative for her to convalesce in clearer air. Mother Prioress, Dame Margaret Mary Lescher, laid the matter before the Bishop, who at once agreed that the Doctor’s orders should be obeyed. Carey recommended that Hastings would be the most suitable place and plans were into place. This article is based on the diaries and letters of the Dames during their stay in Hastings which are preserved in the Haslemere Collection at Downside Abbey Library and Archive.
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Woodcock proposal: Performance of diplomacy
Dr Philippa Woodcock
The ambassadors’ fireworks parties: public and private performance in early modern Paris
Firework displays had become a common place visual finale to royal and civic display in seventeenth century France. Indeed, Michel le Pure’s Idée de Spectacles Ancien et Nouveaux (1668) complained of their ubiquity as a type of elite performance. Whilst displays at Versailles are the focus of a current exhibition, these had developed from the model established in Paris by the officers of the Hotel de Ville. Set up on the place de Grève or on the Seine, in front of the Louvre, the fireworks were the final act to a series of rituals, including triumphal entries, Te Deum, formal receptions, theatre, ballet and naumachie. In honour of the royal family, the fireworks might even be lit by the king: thus, court, crown and city were all actors, and audience in this performance. Furthermore, the king dictated that resident ambassadors should play their own part. Special seats were reserved for the choicest envoys in the gallerie du Louvre to ensure that their reports of the fireworks would analytically itemise the event for their foreign masters. In addition, an accompanying ‘programme’, explaining the symbolism of the ephemeral event, was produced. These would be diffused across Europe to inform of the political messages of the display.
However, upon rare occasions the ambassadors themselves became the patron and the host of these fireworks parties. This paper will consider the fireworks mounted in 1649 by the Venetian ambassador Michele Morosini to celebrate Venetian naval victory, and the celebrations in 1730 to mark the Franco-Spanish alliance, as symbolised by the birth of the dauphin. Using surviving pamphlets and prints, it will consider how the ambassador managed this performance in the interests of his masters, and his place at court and in the city. The paper will ask how the ambassadors faced the challenge of transferring control of the performance, and managed new ‘theatres’ for the accompanying banquets, masques and receptions. Fireworks are by nature public and ephemeral, and were centred around the Hotel de Ville or Louvre. How then could they be manipulated to be focused on the ‘private’ property of the hotel, yet still fulfil the essential need to be seen by the public, and communicate political messages? Furthermore, how did each ambassador switch roles from being a member of the audience, to directing ‘festins tres-splendides, dont il a regalé les principaux Seigneurs de la Cour et de la Ville’? Finally, as well as directing several types of ephemeral performance, how did the ambassadors guide the permanent documentation surrounding each event? Was the court or civic model always followed, or did an ‘embassy’ style emerge?
DUBROVNIK: 16th -17th April, 2020
DUBROVNIK: 16th -17th April 2020
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest
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Budapest, 1014
25th – 26th September, 2015