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- W4238474311 abstract "Geoffrey Elton censured historians who adopted an uncritical or complacent approach to letters, since this inevitably reduced diplomatic history to “a form of idolatry offered to bits of paper.”1 Yet while it is necessary to appreciate and interrogate the shortcomings of letters as historical sources, it is also important to note that sixteenth-century people did in fact make reverence to “bits of paper”—especially when these items emanated from the hand of the monarch. Each part of the intricate, ritualized process of composing, signing, sealing, and delivering royal letters was intended to invest such correspondence with special significance and authority. Variations within each part of the process could signal important diplomatic meanings about the relationship between rulers and the states they represented. Contemporaries made clear distinctions of value between holograph and autograph royal letters, and consequently different letter-forms could be used to propel negotiations in different directions. Although monarchs could be “personally” involved in the drafting or dictation of autograph letters, holograph letters represented a particularly “personal” mode of communication and were treated as highly valuable commodities. Elton thus overstated his case when he argued that because royal letters are “essentially impersonal” documents they “tell us nothing about personality, motive, or politics.”2" @default.
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- W4238474311 title "Conclusion" @default.
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