Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part One - Marriage and the Court

pp 11-12

1 - The French Match and Court Politics

pp 13-28

2 - What Can Be Fuller of Wonder? Buckingham and the Revenge of the Hispanophiles in 1626

pp 29-42

3 - Practical Proselytizing: The Impact of Counter-Reformation Catholicism at the Caroline Court, 1625–26

pp 43-64

Part Two - Marriage and Politics

pp 65-66

4 - ‘The onely soveraigne medecine’: Religious Politics and Political Culture in the British–Spanish Match, 1596–1625

pp 67-78

5 - James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish Eyes

pp 79-94

6 - War, Diplomacy and Stability in the North of Europe in the Early Seventeenth Century

pp 95-108

7 - The Atlantic Politics of Early Stuart Diplomacy

pp 109-124

8 - Mercantile Diplomacy: Corporations, States and International Negotiation

pp 125-138

Part Three - Marriage and War

pp 139-140

9 - The Stuarts, the Palatinate and the Thirty Years’ War

pp 141-156

10 - Marital Problems? Stuart Alliances, Scottish Politics and the Protestant North, 1603–41

pp 157-172

11 - Recognizing Friends from Foes: Stuart Politics, English Military Networks and Alliances with Denmark and the Palatinate

pp 173-186

Part Four - Marriage and News

pp 187-188

12 - Secrecy, Counsel and Public Opinion during the Spanish and French Matches

pp 189-202

13 - The Spanish Match and Anglo-Dutch Publicity

pp 203-226

14 - ‘Whereof the world now stands in admiration’: Reporting on the Spanish Match from the Habsburg Netherlands

pp 227-240

Part Five - Marriage and Continental Europe

pp 241-242

15 - A Peace in Context: Spanish Change in Italian Affairs

pp 243-258

16 - The Court in Brussels: From Hostility to ‘good vicinity’ (1585–1604)

pp 259-270

17 - The Austrian Match: The Habsburgs’ Dynastic Alternative and European Politics

pp 271-284

Part Six - Marriage and Ceremony

pp 285-286