Stuart Marriage Diplomacy

MICHAEL QUESTIER is Honorary Chair, Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology, Durham University.

• Introduction - Valentina Caldari and Michael Questier and Sara J. WolfsonThe French Match and Court Politics - R Malcolm SmutsWhat Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626 - Thomas CogswellPractical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625-26 - Sara J. Wolfson'The onely soveraigne medecine': Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British-Spanish Match, 1596-1625 - Robert CrossJames I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes - Valentina CaldariWar, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century - Porfirio Sanz CamañesThe Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy - Kelsey FlynnMercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation - Edmond SmithThe Stuart, the Palatinate, and the Thirty Years' War - Peter H. WilsonMarital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North 1603-41 - Steve MurdochRecognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and their Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate - Adam MarksSecrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and French Matches - David CoastThe Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity - Helmer HelmersWhereof the world now stands in admiration: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands - Paul ArblasterA Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs - Manuel Rivero RodriguezThe Court of Brussels: From Hostility to 'good vicinity' (1585-1604) - José Eloy Hortal MuñozThe Austrian Match: The Dynastic Alternative of the Habsburgs and European Politics - Rubén González CuervaDynastic Marriage, Diplomatic Ceremonial, and the Treaties of London (1604-05) and Antwerp (1609) - Melinda J. GoughSpanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones's Queen's Chapel at St. James's - Andrea De Meo ArboreBibliography

[T]here is an impressive range of expertise on display within this volume. This book will be of interest to both students and scholars of early Stuart Britain and early modern Europe more generally.