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Clare Jackson: Early Modern Diplomacy, 5 March 2026
Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy
by Carol ChillingtonRutter.
Manchester, 313 pp., £20, February,978 1 5261 7206 8 Show More
by Carol ChillingtonRutter.
Manchester, 313 pp., £20, February,
“... idly spent’ and his dictum that ‘he would rather live five May months than forty Decembers.’Carol ChillingtonRutter’s Lying Abroad opens with an aqueous image. Staring ‘down into the waters of a Venetian canal’, the author imagines a watery Wotton floating among forgotten ignoti: ‘faces from the past who ... ”
