Abstract:Despite the increasing scholarly interest in gender and diplomacy, the ways in which masculinity impacted upon early modern ambassadors remains virtually unexplored. This article responds to this lacuna by examining early modern diplomacy through the lens of early modern notions of manhood. It first sets out key themes essential to the construction of early modern notions of masculinity before conducting a detailed discussion of how three works on ambassadors by Alberico Gentili, Jean Hotman, and Francis Thynn… Show more
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