Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe. The creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics. This book combines cultural definitions of politics with a wider exploration of institutional, military, diplomatic and economic concerns with a view to providing a more comprehensive understanding of dynastic marriage negotiations. It covers a period from the signing of the Treaty of London in 1604 until after the Anglo-French and Anglo-Spanish peace treaties (1629-30). Stuart Marriage Diplomacy explores how the search for a bride for Princes Henry and Charles started a long process of protracted consultations between the key players of Europe: Spain, Italy, France, Rome, Brussels and the United Provinces. It shows the interconnections between these courts, thus advancing a 'continental turn' in the analysis of Stuart politics in the early seventeenth century, and considers how reason of state was often considered as more crucial than religion or economic concerns in the outcome of the Stuart-Habsburg and Stuart-Bourbon marriage negotiations. It also reveals the extent to which the interactions between Europe and non-European actors in both the Atlantic and the East contributed to a redefinition of European identity. It will engage not only scholars and students of early modern Europe but, more generally, those interested in the history of European courts and royalty.
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Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625–26
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‘The onely soveraigne medecine’: Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British–Spanish Match, 1596–1625
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Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation
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Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate
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‘Whereof the world now stands in admiration’: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands
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A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs
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The Court in Brussels: From Hostility to ‘good vicinity’ (1585–1604)
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The Austrian Match: The Habsburgs’ Dynastic Alternative and European Politics
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Spanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones's Queen's Chapel at St James's
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