The first full-length biography of one of the most significant literary and diplomatic figures of the late 17th century. The fruit of over ten years of study, this work provides new and valuable material on a key period of political and military history.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
ISBN-13
978-0-227-67940-1 (9780227679401)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Susan Spens M.B.E. worked for many years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving in Germany, Bulgaria, Senegal and Austria. She has two degrees from London University, the second specialising in English Social and Economic History of the 16th and 17th centuries. She is now working on the Arundel rape of Sussex for the Victoria History of the Counties of England.
Illustrations
Author's Note
Introduction
I. Antecedents
II. Education
III. Apprenticeship
IV. Tutelage
V. Independence
VI. The Imperial Court
VII. Romance, Death and Subsidies
VIII. Hope Deferred
IX. Diplomat, Soldier and Country-Gentleman
X. The Envoy to the Princes of the Rhine
XI. The End of the Nine Years' War
XII. Brandenburg and Poland
XIII. The Commissioner of Trade
XIV. The Turn of the Century
XV. The Grand Alliance
XVI. The New Reign
XVII. The Hungarian Mediation (I)
XVIII. The Hungarian Mediation (II)
XIX. The Quarrel with Wratislaw
XX. The Hungarian Mediation (III)
XXI. Interlude - The Principality of Mindelheim
XXII. The End of the Hungarian Mediation and the Transfer to the Netherlands
XXIII. George Stepney's Poetry
XXIV. The Netherlands
XXV. England
XXVI. Epilogue
Appendices
Notes and References
Bibliography
Nominal Index
Subject and Place Index
