Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature Charles Weedon Practices of Diplomacy in the

Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history

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Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature Charles Weedon Practices of Diplomacy in theThis book visits the fact that, in the pre modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in