Correspondence and cultural exchange in Europe, 1400-1700

edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond

[目次]

• 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 Freart 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 Cortes 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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