For early modern historians, the cast of the Elizabethan polity may seem all too familiar. However, one privy councillor is much less recognisable. As a diplomat and principal secretary, William Davison participated in events...
‘To drink drunk is an ordinary matter with them every day in the week’, remarked the English ambassador Giles Fletcher in his reflection on the state of Russia in the sixteenth century.[i] Anthony Jenkinson,...
What is court studies? Easy, one may think – it is the study of the court. Kings and queens, castles and palaces. But what about their servants? Their animals? What happens when this court...
