Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Protagonists, Issues, and Spaces: Papal Policy at the Beginning of Rudolf IIʼs Reign (1576–1584) 29
5. “i ministri […] sono tutti hormai disautorizati, ne communicano si può dir più co ʼl padrone”: Social Interaction, Communication Structures and Languages at the Prague Imperial Court from the Perspective of the Nuncios and the Roman Curia around 1600 57
6. Negotiation Spaces of Apostolic Nuncios in Prague at the Turn of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Topographic Reconstruction 77
7. Hungarians and the Prague Nunciature 99
8. Public or Private: The Display of Art in Rudolf II’s Imperial Residence at Prague Castle 119
9. Diplomats and the Recreational Spaces of the Habsburgs in Prague: What Was There to See? 145
10. Clients, Agents, and Intelligence Operatives of the Bavarian Dukes at the Court of Rudolf II 173
11. Saxon Diplomats at the Court of Rudolf II (1609) 195
12. An Empress and an Ambassador: The Settlement of Spanish Agents at the Court of Prague (1577–1581) 215
13. One Emperor, One Shah, Too Many Ambassadors: Safavid Envoys in Prague (1600–1612) 233
14. The Traces of English Diplomacy in Rudolfine Prague 259
15. About the Authors
16. Index