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Lying Abroad
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Wydawca: Manchester University Press
Data wydania: 03.02.2026
Typ okładki:twarda okładka
EAN: 9781526172068
Opis
Opis
Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the seventeenth-century maverick whose original approach to diplomacy saved Europe from war.
'Captivatingly told and richly rewarding.' - James Shapiro
'An enchanting book.' - Simon Russell Beale
Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come.
In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wotton's extraordinary story. She reveals how this one-time exile was restored to favour after thwarting a plot against King James, securing a knighthood and a diplomatic posting. Charged with restoring relations with Venice after a fifty-year hiatus, he drew criticism for his frequent breaches of protocol. But when a dispute brought Europe to the brink of war, Wotton took a risk - one that would change the course of history.
This engrossing biography recounts a life that was tumultuous, tarnished and endlessly theatrical. The man King James called his 'honest dissembler' was a maverick who fashioned diplomacy in ways that still inform international relations today.
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'Captivatingly told and richly rewarding.' - James Shapiro
'An enchanting book.' - Simon Russell Beale
Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come.
In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wotton's extraordinary story. She reveals how this one-time exile was restored to favour after thwarting a plot against King James, securing a knighthood and a diplomatic posting. Charged with restoring relations with Venice after a fifty-year hiatus, he drew criticism for his frequent breaches of protocol. But when a dispute brought Europe to the brink of war, Wotton took a risk - one that would change the course of history.
This engrossing biography recounts a life that was tumultuous, tarnished and endlessly theatrical. The man King James called his 'honest dissembler' was a maverick who fashioned diplomacy in ways that still inform international relations today.
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Macmillan Publishers Ireland Limited
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Data wydania: 03.02.2026
Liczba stron: 328
Wymiary: 15.6x23.4
Typ okładki:twarda okładka
Wydawca: Manchester University Press
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Tytuł:Lying Abroad
EAN: 9781526172068
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