Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. List of Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. List of Abbreviation xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part One Marriage and the Court
9. 1. The French Match and Court Politics 11
10. 2 What Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626 29
11. 3 Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625–26 43
12. Part Two Marriage and Politics
13. 4. ‘The onely soveraigne medecine’: Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British–Spanish Match, 1596–1625 65
14. 5 James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes 79
15. 6 War, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century 95
16. 7 The Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy 109
17. 8 Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation 125
18. Part Three Marriage and War
19. 9. The Stuarts, the Palatinate and the Thirty Years’ War 139
20. 10 Marital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North, 1603–41 157
21. 11 Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate 173
22. Part Four Marriage and News
23. 12. Secrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and 189 French Matches 187
24. 13 The Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity 203
25. 14 ‘Whereof the world now stands in admiration’: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands 227
26. Part Five Marriage and Continental Europe
27. 15. A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs 241
28. 16 The Court in Brussels: From Hostility to ‘good vicinity’ (1585–1604) 259
29. 17 The Austrian Match: The Habsburgs’ Dynastic Alternative and European Politics 271
30. Part Six Marriage and Ceremony
31. 18. Dynastic Marriage, Diplomatic Ceremonial and the Treaties of London (1604–05) and Antwerp (1609) 285
32. 19 Spanish Architecture in Early Stuart London: Foreign Policy and Architectural Style in Inigo Jones’s Queen’s Chapel at St James’s 303
33. Bibliography 321
34. Index 357