Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Confessional diplomacy: a short introduction -- PART I: Papal diplomacy -- 2. The Polish-Lithuanian interregna and papal diplomacy -- 3. Catholics, heretics and the 'common enemy': papal diplomacy and the Great Turkish War during the papacy of Innocent XII, 1691-1700 -- 4. Renewing Roman diplomacy? Irish Catholicism and the mission of Fr Bonaventure de Burgo, 1709-1711 -- PART II: Clerics as diplomats -- 5. 'Not fit nor convenient [to] be sent on embassy in the king's business': the diplomatic missions of the runaway Friar Robert Barnes to the Schmalkaldic League and Denmark -- 6. A most venerable provisional envoy: Friar Diego de la Fuente's diplomatic missions to Jacobean London, 1618-1620 and 1624 -- 7. The role of confessor-ambassador: the Capuchin Diego de Quiroga and Habsburg politics -- PART III: Religion as a matter of diplomacy -- 8. Catholic ambassadors in a Protestant court: London, 1603-1625 -- 9. Scottish Calvinists and Swedish diplomacy, 1593-1632: the case of Sir James Spens of Wormiston -- 10. Catholic priests and Protestant chaplains: religion and diplomacy in London and Vienna, 1700-1745 -- 11. Imperial chapels and chaplains: a comparative study of Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Dresden in the later seventeenth century -- 12. Charles XII of Sweden and the Rákóczi uprising in Hungary: the long-lasting legacy of the Protestant cause -- 13. Afterword -- Index.