Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 185738515
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198791317.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198791317
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Underpinned by a period of sustained research activity financially supported by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, this 120,000-word single-authored monograph is: expansive in chronological and geographical breadth, covering Venice’s intelligence operations in the period 1500-1630 across Europe, the Near East, and even Northern Africa; ambitious in thematic and disciplinary scope, speaking to debates in Early Modern Socio-economic, Political, Diplomatic, and Organisational History, Intelligence Studies, and Organisation/Management Studies; and ambitious in documentary material, incorporating a plethora of archival records in Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin, sourced in archives and libraries in Venice, Rome, Florence, Simancas, and London.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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