Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Table of Contents

Introduction Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond
Part I. Networks and Markets of Information:
1. From merchants' letters to handwritten avvisi. Notes on the origins of public information Mario Infelise
2. Handwritten newsletters as means of communication in Europe Renate Pieper and Zsuzsa Barbarics
3. Merchant letters across geographical and social boundaries Francesca Trivellato
4. Correspondence and natural history in the sixteenth century: cultures of exchange in the circle of Carolus Clusius Florike Egmond
Part II. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Artists, Patrons, Collectors:
5. Letters and portraits: economy of time and chivalrous service in courtly life Fernando Bouza
6. The letter as deferred presence: Nicolas Poussin to Paul Fréart de Chantelou. 28 April 1639 Peter Mason
7. The role of correspondence in the transmission of collecting patterns in seventeenth-century Europe: models, media and main characters Irene Baldriga
Part III. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Noblemen, Peasants, Spies:
8. The political correspondence of Albuquerque and Cortés Francisco Bethencourt
9. Spying in the Ottoman Empire: sixteenth-century encrypted correspondence Dejanirah Couto
10. The correspondence of illiterate peasants in early modern Hungary Istvan Grigor Toth.

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