Diplomacy: the World of the Honest Spy (1979), The Map Book (2005),
the chapter on mapmaking in England 1480–1650 in The History of
Cartography iii (University of Chicago, 2007) and (with Tom Harper)
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art (2010).
Rosanna Cox is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University
of Kent, UK. She works mainly on the politics, literature and thought of
the civil war, commonwealth and restoration periods, and is particularly
interested in the works of John Milton. She has published chapters and
articles on Milton’s politics, and on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes,
and is currently working on her monograph on Milton and citizenship.
Joanna Craigwood is a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge. She has recently completed a PhD on diplomacy and early
modern English literature at Cambridge University. She works on cross-
overs between diplomatic and literary representation in the writings of
Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne and Wroth, and in early modern diplomatic
treatises and related historical documents. She also works on diplomatic
agency in the international circulation of books, manuscripts, and
literary news in the early modern period. Her publication on this subject
(in Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century,
ed. Thomson et al., 2010) traces the intersection of national interest and
international exchange in the circulation of books by the poet-diplomats
Matthew Prior and George Stepney.
Hannah J. Crawforth is a Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King’s
College London. Her doctoral thesis, completed at Princeton, was enti-
tled ‘The Politics and Poetics of Etymology in Early Modern Literature’.
It reconsidered the poetry of Spenser, Jonson and Milton in the light
of increased efforts to study the history of the English language in
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. She is currently working
on a book about the relationship between literature and linguistics in
the Renaissance. Previous publications include essays on topics from
Richard Verstegan to Geoffrey Hill.
James Daybell is a Reader in Early Modern History at the University of
Plymouth and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of
Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Oxford University Press, 2006),
editor of Early Modern Women’s Letter-Writing, 1450–1700 (Palgrave, 2001;
winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women award for
best collaborative project, 2002), Women and Politics in Early Modern
England, 1450–1700 (Ashgate, 2004), and (along with Peter Hinds)
Material Readings of Early Modern Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).
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