Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth : The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) / / Felicity Jane Stout

• Autore: Stout Felicity Jane
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 327.41047
• Soggetto topico: Diplomatic relations
• Soggetto geografico: Russia; Great Britain; Russia History 1533-1613; Russia Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations Russia
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: Christendom; Elizabethan regime; English mercantile contact; Giles Fletcher; Muscovy Company; Russia; ad hoc embassies; anti-popery; censorship; colonization; commonwealth; corruption; diplomacy; diplomatic negotiations; late Elizabethan political culture; political consciences; politically sensitive representations; religious consciences; resonances; trade relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An adventuring commonwealth: English mercantile and diplomatic encounters with Russia, 1553-88 -- A commonwealths-man in Russia: Giles Fletcher's early career and embassies -- Creating a feigned commonwealth: Fletcher's response to Russia -- A corrupted commonwealth: Fletcher's representation of Russia -- A commonwealth counseled: Russia's resonances in late Elizabethan England -- A controversial commonwealth: censorship, poetry and Fletcher's late career -- Conclusion. Thinking with Russia, writing English commonwealth.
• Sommario/riassunto: Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of English relations with Russia, from the 'strange and wonderfull discoverie' of the land and Elizabeth I's correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime's censorship of politically sensitive representations of Russia. Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular themes in Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletcher's writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of government and the changing face of monarchy in the late Elizabethan regime. It will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
• ISBN: 1-78499-625-4; 1-78499-687-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821121503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.