Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Procure as many as you can and send them over’: Cartographic Espionage and Cartographic Gifts in International Relations, 1460–1760

Chapter 3 Scholars, Servants, Spies: William Weldon and William Swerder in England and Abroad

Chapter 4 Some Elizabethan Spies in the Office of Sir Francis Walsingham

Chapter 5 A Most Secret Service: William Herle and the Circulation of Intelligence

Chapter 6 Sidney, Gentili, and the Poetics of Embassy

Chapter 8 Francis Bacon’s Bi-literal Cipher and the Materiality of Early Modern Diplomatic Writing

Chapter 9 Court Hieroglyphics: the Idea of the Cipher in Ben Jonson’s Masques

Chapter 10 The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing

Chapter 11 The Postmistress, the Diplomat, and a Black Chamber?: Alexandrine of Taxis, Sir Balthazar Gerbier and the Power of Postal Control