Francis Thynne's Perfect Ambassadour and the construction of diplomatic thought in Elizabethan England
Francis Thynne's Perfect Ambassadour, written in 1578, is the earliest surviving English treatise on the role of the ambassador. Thynne's conception of appropriate diplomatic activity was influenced by historical precedent. Thynne drew directly on ancient Greek and Roman authors; he also i...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2020
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